Lake District. A number of things occurred the day this image was made that give rise to the title above. We (the group of photographers initially consisting of Tim Parkin, Dav Thomas, Jason Theaker, Adam Clutterbuck and Rob Hudson - and later Joined by Russ Turner and David Baker) returned to the stream the previous image was made only in better light. We were also joined by David Unsworth, one half of the husband/wife team based in the Lakes, who proceeded to set up his enormous 10x8 camera as well - quite a sight to behold! Worth checking out his work in the recent landscapeGB.com. But I digress, after some time searching for something this particular patch of ice drew me in and I began to set up my gear to compose the shot. Only problem though was it's location; inches from the water and the only way to get a good framing of it was getting down low. Dav had just finished making something a little further upstream - rather, had abandoned his set up after dropping a cable release into the stream (doh!) - and came down to see what I was up to, only to find me sprawled flat out on a precarious ice sheet, creaking and breaking off in places as I adjusted the tilt-shift controls on Tim's te-s mkII 24mm lens. I was also giggling slightly at my precarious position and how close I was to it all going horribly wrong...luckily I lived to tell the tale. Ok, it wasn't that deep but at temps below zero, lets say I'd rather I stayed dryI It's fair to say I pushed the lens to it's limits, this delicate halo of ice around the rock was centimeters from the front element, tilt was around 5-6 degrees or maybe more (usually I never need more than 2) and was also shifted a few mm to frame it better - at 100% the result is superb (Thanks again TIm! :) ). With the image made I hopped off the ice, only for it to finally crack and splash into the water. Feeling invincible I followed Dav to his gear and helped him locate his release in the crystal clear water which we did. Kids, remember: cold = clear! So, diced with danger once again...but the next encounter would be when Tim gave me a quick tutorial with his 5x4 Ebony on a potential composition I'd spotted earlier...I loved it. After using ts-e lenses focusing was fairly straight forward and the enormous screen on the back certainly makes things easier than an SLR viewfinder! Now I'm thinking about 5x4 even more!!! See, told you it was a dangerous day. (Thanks Tim)...