An extremely cold image... brrr. Let the spring come very soon.

fantastic. i especially like the contrast between the surrounding grey and the colour core if you like.

This one is just superb.

Magnifique, j'adore...

Cool - no pun intended.

And good to see the old 300d and kit lens still get a work out from time to time.

BTW, those clouds are an excellent match for the ice. Come to think of it they are a perfect match for the winter olympics on my TV right now too.

Oh my god, this is amazing! What a scene. You dod a great job with the mood and colors! The sky is just perfect.

sam, this capture looks surreal -- as if the world as about to freeze over and toronto was about to slide into an icy slumber. whether it's an old shot or not, it is still quite fascinating.

It's a great shot, at an enviable wide angle as always, but it's also an interesting case study for jpeg compression artifacts. The windows in a lot of the skyline buildings look blocky in a way that, having seen your previous work, I am certain is not reflected in the original shot. I don't know if I have a point, just an interesting photo from a technical perspective, especially given how clear and un-blocky the rest of the shot is.

Beautiful colours. A very serene and 'frozen' scene, almost ghosttown-like. Only the steam billowing out toward the center says "people live here."

The only thing different in this picture from how this shot would actually look now is the number of condos (great pylons of the sky) that are blocking the view!! Brilliant shot. Let's see how it looks a year from now.

Yes, this is a very nicely balanced shot, and well composed.
I too like the contrast and the sharpness.

For what I can tell, Toronto is a very photogenic city. I live in Arizona (USA), so I have a completely different environment to shoot at, but nevertheless I can sometimes see the way we (photobloggers) look at things can many times be very similar.
Cool shot... chilling ;o)

This is an amazing shot. I love those puff of white clouds on top of the building on right.

Really nice Sam
i love how colour the image looks

a lone explorer comes across a city grown out of the tundra.. well defined at the edges on a perfectly flat sheet of ice.
what the hell is it doing there?! ;)

just wonderful. any chance of getting this photo as a wallpaper?

The city almost doesn't look real. Looks like a minature model or that it was super-imposed into the picture. I love the Toronto skyline even in the dead of winter.

I like this shot, if only because it's different than your (general your) average skyline. I like having skyline series. Mine of Nashville doesn't have an icy lake, but I've got Sunny Skyline, Stormy Skyline, Winter Skyline, etc...This is a good addition to your collection :)

Great shot. I like the dark clouds above the city. Makes it ominous...

An amazing photo. The sky looks like it's painted on.

very cold indeed. I second the motion that spring can make it's way here anytime!

Beautiful colours!

Perfect!! this is the kind of pictures i love, i think Toronto is a great city, so pictures like this one magnifyes that... take more pics like this Sam!! score!!

Stunning shot...one of the best Toronto cityscape I've seen!!!

great skyline. love the colors.

this is a very good shot. I like pinkish and greenish tones in the picture.

Very beautiful. Amazing how you can get everything in one shot.. the frozen lake, the skyline, the clouds, even the smoke coming out of the buildings. Your photograhpy is extraordinary.

This is a very cool photo, it actually reminds me of that Hollywood film "Day After Tomorrow".

magical

i really like this one
sharp and highly saturated city looks good here

Are those your footprints on the ice?
You couldn't do that this year.

Awesome image.. this is the first time that I'm seeing Toronto like THIS.. WOW

very nice perspective and frame.

Awesome skyline, looks like an advertise!

This makes centre island look so far away! Nevertheless, an amasing cityscape. Toronto is pretty damn picturesque.

Wow, I just stumbled onto this site about a month ago after an article was posted in my school's paper about photo blog sites.....I have to say a lot of the pictures here are amazing, but this one is especially phenomenal.

feel silence.

silence.

Superb! Like the scene in "The day after tomorrow"!

Wow! How i wish waters in Singapore would freeze up some time of the year too.

Another great picture. This is one of those pics that captures the mood of the season nicely. I don't suppose there would be any chance of a wallpaper of this?

This looks like the poster for Mad Max IV: Frozen Toronto. I like that it feels expansive.

This ice scene was part of my life when I worked in the Parks Department at the Island. We kept the Ongiara running as long as it would keep pushing through the ice, either to Ward's Island or if we couldn't get in there, we'd go to Hanlan's Point. If there are too many days in a row of very cold weather, the Ongiara cannot get through the ice anymore so we run the buses across the airport runways and take the ferry at the foot of Bathurst St. What a way to make a living - but I certainly remember it fondly. Sometimes I brought my skates to work, got off the ferry and skated into the office. Cool, thanks for posting images from my favourite place on earth.

I think you posted a similar picture a long time ago. You posted a frozen lake before though. I know that much. This is really nice right here though. All the colors came out real nice in the middle of the sky and the frozen lake. I hear that is a nice island too.

What a view. What a city. In a way its also quite a sad image. All the grey, from the (frozen?) river, dark clouds, and smoke just off-centre, make it look quite sad. This is what we (man) have created... Yet I love cities so I love the photograph!

Simply amazing