Why Snow and a Lighter Do Not Prove a Conspiracy
A dark mark and surprisingly little dripping water can make a snow-and-lighter video look mysterious. Neither observation proves that snow ...
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Mike Taylor’s Maine Aurora Photography and a Change of Direction
Mike Taylor’s Maine night photographs combine bright auroral colour with recognisable foregrounds. A house, a horizon or a lighthouse gives...
Ten Frozen Fountains: Ice Patterns and Winter City Scenes
A fountain’s usual motion becomes a layered sculpture when spray and flowing water freeze. Basins, figures and edges remain partly recognis...
Michael Muraz’s Illuminated Niagara Falls in Winter
Michael Muraz’s Niagara photographs bring together three ingredients: winter ice, moving mist and colourful illumination. The result looks ...
Nine Golden Retriever Puppies Explore the Snow
Nine golden retriever puppies turn a snowy outdoor space into a lively little exploration. Their golden coats stand out against the white g...
Doug Seus and His Trained Bears: The Film and Its Context
Doug Seus’s work with trained bears produced some remarkable close-up footage. This archive clip draws attention through the contrast betwe...
The Matterhorn Through the Day: Twelve Photographs, One Remarkable Mountain
The Matterhorn’s distinctive profile can anchor very different photographs. A reflection doubles its outline, a cloud adds a brief flourish ...
B-Peg: A Snowboarding Prosthesis Tested at Val Thorens
The B-Peg project explores how a purpose-built prosthesis can support snowboarding movements. Workshop views and footage on snow make the r...
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Finnish Lapland in Winter: Forests, Light and Snow-Covered Landscapes
Snow-laden trees give Finnish Lapland an almost sculptural appearance. Rounded branches and low light turn a forest into a collection of so...
Frost Flowers on Lake Ice: A Delicate Surface Pattern
The white formations resemble tiny blossoms scattered across a frozen surface. From a distance, the repeated shapes give the scene the look...
Ice Driving in Western Norway: Tracks Across a Frozen Surface
Curved tyre tracks reveal the car’s path across this icy Norwegian setting. The wide camera view makes the relationship between steering di...
Dry Ice in Water: Understanding the Low White Cloud
Dry ice added to water produces an impressive low white cloud. The key distinction is that dry ice is solid carbon dioxide, while the visib...
Titlis Cliff Walk: The High-Alpine Bridge and the View Around It
The Titlis Cliff Walk is a small piece of engineering in a very large landscape. A narrow deck stretches between mountain anchors, its open ...
A Roof-Snow Release Beside a Ladder
The person on the ladder is working beside a thick layer of roof snow when the scene changes abruptly. A much larger sheet begins to move, ...
Ten Snow, Ice and Water Landscapes: Glaciers, Mountains and Frozen Shores
Cracked lake ice, trapped bubbles and a still-water reflection offer three very different winter textures. Compare how each texture changes...
An Ontario Ice Fort Built One Batch at a Time
Rows of coloured ice blocks slowly become an outdoor gathering place in this Ontario project. The photographs give the finished fort a sati...
Soap Bubbles in a Thompson, Manitoba Winter
Ted Goossen and his wife used a bitterly cold day in Thompson, Manitoba, to make a very small subject visible: a soap bubble changing in th...
Flying Squirrel Portraits: Faces, Tree Trunks and Hollows
A small face peering from a tree hollow can stop you halfway through a page. These flying-squirrel portraits have that effect: dark eyes, t...
Lake Michigan Ice Balls Near South Haven
Rounded pieces of ice crowd the Lake Michigan shoreline in this South Haven clip. Their colour and repeated shapes create a striking patter...
Iglu-Dorf: Snow Rooms, Carved Interiors and Alpine Settings
Iglu-Dorf’s snow rooms turn a material usually cleared from doorways into the building itself. From outside, rounded openings blend into th...
A Wet T-Shirt Freezes in Dubuque: Temperature and Wind Chill
A wet T-shirt becoming stiff outdoors makes cold weather visible in a familiar object. Envision Sports Designs filmed this demonstration in...
New York’s January 2014 Snowstorm in Time-Lapse
Street lights and moving traffic give this New York snowstorm time-lapse a steady urban rhythm. As the night passes, the accumulating white...
P&G’s Sochi-Era Advertisement: The Support Behind the Athlete
The most important person in this winter-sports advert is often the one standing beside the athlete. P&G's Sochi-era Thank You, Mom...
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A Wisconsin Cold-Weather Stunt in Its Original Setting
Snow, minimal clothing and a deliberately mismatched outdoor performance supply the premise of this Wisconsin clip. Uploaded by reichhen as...
Inside Québec’s Hôtel de Glace: Ice Rooms, Sculptures and Seasonal Design
Québec’s Hôtel de Glace uses carved snow, ice and coloured light to make a room feel unlike an ordinary hotel interior. The entrance is onl...
North America’s January 2014 Cold Outbreak on a Globe
A broad sweep of colour over North America gives this January 5, 2014 visualisation its impact. Credited to meteorologist Anthony Sagliani ...
A Wood-Splitting Clip That Keeps the Pieces Together
The unusual part of this wood-splitting clip happens after the strike. Instead of scattering immediately, the separated pieces remain gathe...
The Bartz Brothers’ 2014 Snow Shark and Earlier Sea Creatures
Austin, Connor and Trevor Bartz gave their New Brighton yard a spectacular marine visitor: a huge shark sculpted from snow. The people besi...
The January 2014 US Cold Outbreak: Forecasts, Observations and Winter Impacts
In January 2014, a severe cold outbreak brought warnings, closures and striking winter scenes across parts of the United States. Contempora...
Jurij Tepeš at Vikersund: A Ski-Jump Point of View
The view from a ski-jump inrun makes a familiar televised sport feel very different. Rails converge ahead of the camera, and the surroundin...
Waffles the Cat and an Icy Jump
Waffles' orange coat makes the movement easy to follow against the snow as the cat attempts a short jump between a vehicle and a railin...
The Canadian Ice Truck: Construction, Driving and Melting
The outline is unmistakably a pickup truck, but the body lets light pass through it. This Canadian Tire promotional project used an ice scu...
Zaria Forman’s Greenland Icebergs in Pastel
Zaria Forman’s iceberg scenes invite a second look because their convincing surfaces are made with pastel. The pleasure is not just discove...