Scott Sheppard’s Lightning Incident Near Fairburn
Scott Sheppard’s lightning-strike account became a widely shared storm video in 2014. The archive described him filming from a vehicle wind...
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Anton Pankov’s Floating-Ice Camping Film
An ice floe becomes both the setting and the means of movement in Anton Pankov's film of a trip with friends. Seen from farther away, t...
Eight Cloud Forms: A Gallery of Structure and Light
Clouds can resemble lenses, breaking waves or a rough sea seen from underneath. Their shapes offer clues to atmospheric processes, but a dr...
Blue Iceland: Andy Lee’s Infrared Landscape Photography
Andy Lee’s Iceland photographs trade familiar postcard brightness for dark skies, sculptural mountains and a moody tonal range. The Blue Ic...
The May 2014 Watford City Tornado on Video
Footage from near Watford City, North Dakota, shows a tornado alarmingly close to buildings on May 26, 2014. Its immediacy explains why the...
Solar Roadways: Separating a Paving Proposal from Proven Performance
Solar Roadways proposed combining a paved surface with solar generation, lighting and other functions. Its exuberant 2014 promotional video...
Sleeping on a Big Wall: Portaledges and the Scale of a Climb
A place to eat and sleep takes on a different meaning halfway up a rock wall. In this gallery, climbers and their equipment occupy small sp...
10 Ice and Snow Art Projects: Sculptures, Snow Drawings and a Playable Record
Ice and snow give artists something unusual: a material whose transformation can become part of the work. Melting, fresh snowfall and chang...
Janice Haley’s Tigers: A Captive-Animal Profile in Context
The archive film about Janice Haley shows close contact with captive tigers named Janda and Saber. The film raises questions about familiar...
Savor Every Moment: Keith Hopkin’s Film About Dogs
Keith Hopkin's Savor Every Moment finds enough material for a film in the small pleasures of animal life. A look, a pause or a burst of...
A Black Bear Retrieves Her Cub Beside a Road in Kootenay
A black bear reaching over a roadside barrier to retrieve a cub makes a memorable sequence from Kootenay National Park. Ricky Forbes record...
John All’s Himalayan Crevasse Fall: A Recorded Survival Account
John All's camera does not record a scenic Himalayan panorama. It records the close walls of a crevasse and a badly injured researcher ...
Eighteen Cycling Settings: From City Streets to Mountain Trails
A bicycle changes the pace at which a landscape is encountered, but the cycling ideas in this archive span very different experiences. Hist...
Max and Savanna: A Dog and Cheetah Playing at Cincinnati Zoo
A Labrador-mix dog named Max and a cheetah named Savanna share a snowy enclosure in this Cincinnati Zoo archive. Their interaction is appea...
Dan Brisse’s Rooftop Snowboard Jump
Dan Brisse’s rooftop jump takes snowboarding into an urban setting where the geometry is immediately clear. A gap between buildings replace...
An Iceland Timelapse from aprilgarden
Aprilgarden’s Iceland time-lapse offers a way to watch a landscape change while remaining in one place. The archive’s ice-and-shore cover s...
Trolltunga, Norway: The View and the Walk Behind It
Trolltunga’s projecting rock ledge overlooks Lake Ringedalsvatnet in Norway. The famous photograph is a small part of a long mountain outin...
A GoPro BASE-Jumping Compilation from European Cliffs
Experience Zero Gravity places BASE-jumping footage against European mountain scenery, with the camera close enough to the movement that th...
Basehunters’ Wyoming Supercell Timelapse, May 2014
Basehunters recorded a developing supercell near Wright and Newcastle, Wyoming, on May 18, 2014. The time-lapse makes the storm’s changing ...
Tommy and Becca Caldwell: Everyday Life on a Portaledge
Corey Rich’s photographs of Tommy and Becca Caldwell bring familiar routines into an unfamiliar place. Eating, reading and resting happen o...
Lake Baikal Ice Hummocks: Blue Slabs on Siberia’s Ancient Lake
Lake Baikal’s winter ice can break the horizon into blue slabs and ridges. These hummocks turn a flat-looking lake into a remarkably sculpt...
Michael Grab’s Stone Balancing: Contact, Patience and Gravity
Michael Grab’s stone balances look improbable because large forms meet at visually tiny points. Water and evening light make the arrangemen...
Mary Marshall’s Elephant Seal Pup Encounter in Antarctica
Mary Marshall’s elephant-seal encounter begins with a photographer sitting near a pup during an Antarctic expedition. The animal’s approach...
Churchill’s Tundra Lodge: A Mobile Base for Polar Bear Watching
The Tundra Lodge concept places accommodation in the landscape associated with Churchill’s polar-bear season. Raised structures and viewing...
A Rooftop Jump into Snow: What the Video Leaves Out
Fresh snow can make a familiar street look completely transformed. In this archive clip, that transformed landscape becomes the landing are...
The Morrisons’ Tiny House: A $33,089 Project with a Carefully Planned Interior
Andrew and Gabriella Morrison’s compact home makes a persuasive case for thinking carefully about space. Its small footprint still accommod...
West Antarctic Glacier Retreat: What the 2014 Research Actually Found
Research published in 2014 examined long-term ice loss in parts of West Antarctica. Its geographical scope matters: the findings concerned ...
Sun Halos over Finland: Understanding Pauli Hänninen’s Photographs
Pauli Hänninen’s Finnish halo photographs show a sky busy with arcs and bright spots. A small group of people beneath the display gives its...
Zia Terry’s First Ski Jump and the Athletes Who Encouraged Her
Zia Terry’s first-jump video captures the pause before a new challenge. The view down the hill makes it easy to understand why a young skie...
Curling Snow on a Cabin Roof: A Small-Scale Winter Transformation
Snow hanging in a curved sheet from a cabin roof looks almost fabric-like. The surprising shape reveals that a snow layer can deform and mo...
Awakening: New Zealand’s Landscapes in a 4K Time-Lapse
New Zealand’s mountains and waterways provide a dramatic stage for this archive time-lapse. The filmmakers’ changing viewpoints turn a coll...
Casey Anderson and Brutus: The Bear Behind Montana Grizzly Encounter
Casey Anderson and Brutus became known through photographs of an unusual relationship between a wildlife professional and a grizzly bear bo...
A Deer Rescued from Lake Ice near Kenora, Ontario
A deer struggling for footing on lake ice is the centre of this Canadian rescue clip. The contrast between the animal’s movements and the s...
Paul Nicklen and the Leopard Seal: The Story Behind the Penguin Offerings
In Antarctica, wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen encountered a leopard seal that repeatedly brought penguins towards him. His account comb...
Thirty Frozen Scenes: Ice on Buildings, Water, Plants and Everyday Objects
Frost covering a statue changes the expression of an otherwise familiar face. It is a small example of winter transforming the surfaces peo...
Spot the Snow Leopard: David “Baz” Jenkins’ Himalayan Photographs
David “Baz” Jenkins’ snow-leopard photographs reward patient looking. Rock, shadow and patches of snow make the animal difficult to disting...
A Subaru WRX Helps a Stuck Police Car in Hazel Park
A Subaru WRX helping a stuck police vehicle makes an appealing reversal of the usual roadside-assistance story. The original account placed...
An Early Autonomous Follow-Camera Drone: Composition from a Smartphone
This early drone promotion imagined an aerial camera that could follow a moving subject while maintaining a chosen frame. For outdoor filmm...
A Ski BASE Front Flip Through a GoPro Camera
A first-person view along snow becomes abruptly different when the slope ends at a drop. That transition supplies the tension in this archi...
Ten Unusual Natural Phenomena: Storms, Ice, Light and Rock
Pointed snow forms and delicate ribbons of ice look as though they were carefully sculpted. Their shapes show why an unusual natural phenom...
Chris Benchetler and Kimmy Fasani: British Columbia Through a GoPro
Chris Benchetler and Kimmy Fasani bring skiing and snowboarding into an archive GoPro feature from British Columbia. The body-mounted viewp...
Toronto Zoo’s Polar Bear Cub Meets Snow: An Early-Care Archive
A small polar bear investigating snow turns an ordinary winter surface into something new. This Toronto Zoo archive concentrates on the cub...
David Attenborough’s Wonderful World Montage: Nature Through Voice and Editing
David Attenborough’s spoken accompaniment gives this BBC nature montage a gentle, reflective rhythm. The film connects very different livin...