I found the photo and the accompanying explanation lovely.
Remember a time when you received a shock, a stunning grief, when the entire world seemed frozen or you, yourself, seemed to experience life behind a thick wall of glass or ice. Write about the yourself as if you were that apple frozen upon the tree. Describe being encased in ice, the numbness, the silence.
Or write about the slow thawing. What brought you back to the world, dropped you out of a frozen world.
Bonus prompt: write an ekphrastic poem using these images.