To make the picture, the crystals were illuminated by light shining through a polarizing filter -- a filter that restricts the otherwise randomly oriented light waves to vibrate in only one direction.
While passing through the ice, different colors of the polarized light are then refracted and reflected along slightly different paths by the delicate crystalline layers.
Viewing the scene with a second polarizing filter brings out the wondrous display of structure and color.
Painting with "light, the laws of physics, and an attitude" Wasilewski has created a series of these evocative ice images that he refers to as Frozen Vision or
