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Icy trees that look like glass are my favorite kind of trees. I am not even a big fan of winter, but I love them more than springtime flowering trees!

Assuming you've taken the image on digital equipment, make sure you've saved it in the highest pixel level possible. Then, whether you've photographed it on film or digital, to have the image enlarged, take your CD, negative or slide to a professional color lab to have the image printed. In my opinion, the best digital prints are done via digital photographic lazer printer. The machine prints the image via laser on photographic paper then processes it. Film should be printed in the traditional manner.

You should see the trees after an ice storm. It's a little scary, and the city practically shuts down (sometimes people lose power) but every little branch is covered in a 1/8" thick layer of crystal clear ice. The city is very quiet because very few people are driving in this kind of weather, and (here's the scary part) you can hear small cracking noises all around you, which is the cracking of small branches under the extreme weight of the ice.

Ice storms are serious business, but they can be very beautiful as well.

living in a non-snowy area, I decided to recreate this look to an extent this year by gathering fallen branches outside and spray painting them with a light coat of flat white paint. then I separated them into two bundles and put them in tall vases, tied them off with a pretty ribbon, and hung tiny snowflake ornaments on them. they are currently in my dining room looking beautiful.

You could try using the Rasterbator to put it on your wall. It works really well with high contrast stuff like this.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

I hope you enjoyed your stay in our city and you were prepared for the cold weather we experienced early this year. Saturday was particularly cold.