Average day temperatures around -10 °C (10 °F) and night tempertures often approaching -20 °C (-4 °F)… That really needs getting used to. So does the view of a frozen sea. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that and it actually poses a real photographic problem for me: how do you capture that frozen, wide, clean emptiness? Hm.
Thomas
PS.: Oh, by the way: record for this winter in Sweden for this winter: -40 °C (-40 °F). In view of such temperatures, I guess, one could say that we have a streak of cozy weather right now… 
Damn! That’s cold!!! i’ve never seen frozen seawater, but I’d sure like to. I think that you’ve done well capturing the starkness of it. However, to show more of the ice, and let it be identified as such, you’d have to move closer and then you’d lose your wide perspective.
That’s a wonderful image, it’s hard to believe it’s that cold. The shiny bedrocks gives a hint. So the sea is really frozen where you stay? Here at Öresund, it’s still wet.
@Paul: I guess, that’s my problem. This huge area of ice does not have a color, does not have a structure or texture… Actually, an ice-only photo with a 300 mm lens looks rather similar to one with 12 mm (which are my 2 extremes).
@Ove: Yeah, that’s because you’re living in the south
Thomas: Is there ice between the crags of the rocks that offer texture or structure? I guess that it is pretty cold and probably you don’t want to spend a lot of time looking around. At least I know that I wouldn’t. I’d want to be somewhere warm, looking out of the window, like I am now!
To be honest, my main problem was that those rocks are really slippery, as they are mostly coated with a thin film of ice. Next time I’l put on ice-skates!
Good point, Thomas. Better to not be in a dangerous situation!