Twenty Thunderstorm Photographs: Light, Scale and Changing Skies
A lightning photograph divides a scene into two kinds of time: the patient landscape and the sudden flash. A canyon rim or dark shoreline g...
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Hallstatt: Lake Views, Salt History and a Living Village
Hallstatt’s buildings seem to gather every available piece of ground between mountain and lake. In winter, reflections double the roofs and...
An Iceberg Arch Collapses in Newfoundland
The opening makes the iceberg look almost like a gateway. Different camera angles reveal how much ice surrounds that gap, and why a gracefu...
Music and Snowboarding Injuries: What the Study Actually Found
A headline saying music makes snowboarding safer sounds reassuring. The study behind it told a more complicated story, and understanding th...
Wave-Like Clouds over Nebraska
Turn an ocean upside down and the result might look something like this sky. The cloud base rises and falls in dark folds, while the houses...
Hidenobu Suzuki’s Mount Fuji Photographs
Mount Fuji sits quietly near the centre, while the colours around it do most of the changing. Hidenobu Suzuki’s photographs use a recognisa...
Falls Creek’s 2014 Snow-Depth Headline, Put in Context
Deep snow beside a building makes an immediate impression. The Falls Creek archive celebrated a snowy moment in the 2014 Australian ski sea...
Patrick Hübschmann’s Frosty Rhine Morning
The willow’s branches look almost woven from pale thread. Patrick Hübschmann’s Rhine photographs find winter atmosphere in small relationsh...
Gary Jensen’s Frozen Chicago Warehouse Interiors
At first glance, Gary Jensen's photographs could show an ice cave. Then a column, doorway or ceiling gives away the setting: these extr...
Kwon O Chul’s Yellowknife Aurora Gallery
The sky looks immense, but the small illuminated structures give it a place in a human evening. Kwon O Chul’s photographs around Yellowknif...
Hiking, Wellbeing and Creativity: A Practical Guide without the Hype
A walk can give a day a welcome change of pace: a different view, some movement and time with another person. Those are worthwhile reasons ...
Seventeen Penguin Moments: Behaviour, Movement and Life in the Colony
A fluffy chick takes up very little space beside an adult penguin, yet it is difficult to look anywhere else. Small steps, a shifting stanc...
Arctic Swell: A Surf Film Built around a Cold Journey
The board is familiar. The snowy beach behind it changes everything. Arctic Swell places surfing in a landscape far removed from the warm-...
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Twenty Dramatic Cloud Images: Earth’s Skies and One Planetary Comparison
A long cloud edge can make the entire sky seem to lean towards the ground. In these photographs, buildings and trees become small reference...
Vincent Brady’s Planetary Panoramas
Four cameras point outwards from a compact rig. The arrangement is a useful clue to Vincent Brady’s Planetary Panoramas : the film is built...
Minnehaha Falls in Winter: A Changing Curtain of Ice
Minnehaha Falls looks wonderfully different when winter ice takes over its familiar drop. The Minneapolis waterfall is 53 feet high, about ...
Hail on a Novosibirsk Beach: A Summer Outing Changes
The river surface turns speckled, and people who had been enjoying the beach begin moving out of the water. These Novosibirsk archive image...
The Melakwa Lake Helicopter Rescue: A Team at Work
The hiker has very little room to move. In this rescue recording, the rock face is the central fact: the person is in terrain where continu...
Craig Shimala’s Chicago Lightning Recordings
Chicago's towers provide a recognisable outline until lightning draws a second, brilliant structure over them. Craig Shimala's stor...
Under-Ice Mussel Harvesting: Knowledge of a Tidal Landscape
An under-ice harvesting scene can look like an extraordinary race against time. The more useful question is what knowledge makes the activi...
Navarre the Wolf: Rescue and Rehabilitation
The beginning of Navarre’s story is difficult: a wolf in cold water, unable to get out without help. What gives the account its hopeful dir...
Erez Marom’s Iceland Landscapes: Ice, Water and Unusual Light
Warm light enters an icy opening and changes the whole mood of the scene. Erez Marom’s Iceland photographs show why a cold landscape need n...
Mount Hua’s Exposed Routes: Beyond the “Deadliest Hike” Headline
Mount Hua’s narrow plank route is an arresting sight: a prepared walkway set against a steep rock face, with very little of the wider mount...
Richard Clarkson’s Cloud: Turning Storm Light into an Object
Richard Clarkson's Cloud brings the appearance of a thunderstorm indoors without bringing the weather. A soft suspended form lights fro...
Lightning Seen from Orbit: A Reid Wiseman Archive
From above, a thunderstorm loses the familiar foreground of streets or mountains. Light appears within a much larger cloud scene, and the v...
Instant Ice: What Supercooled Water Demonstrations Reveal
The water pours like a liquid, then seems to become ice as it lands. The surprise in this demonstration is not that the water suddenly beco...
Five Landscapes with Legends: Myth beside the Visible Place
A legend can make a place feel larger than its visible ruins or skyline. It adds characters and possibilities to the landscape, as long as ...
Polar Bears from Water Level: Film, Sea Ice and Ecological Context
The camera rides close to the water, and a bear’s pale head becomes the point to follow. GoPro’s Polar Bears: The Quest for Sea Ice gives ...
Rimed Snow Crystals: A Microscopic Weather History
The crystal has a geometric centre and surprisingly rough ends. Under a microscope, snow can look much less like a neat paper cut-out and m...
The Mpemba Effect: Why the Experiment’s Definition Matters
Can initially warmer water freeze before initially cooler water? The Mpemba effect is interesting partly because that short question hides ...
Blanket Bay: A Lakeside Retreat near Glenorchy
The lake is the constant in Blanket Bay’s setting. Gardens, stone buildings and mountain views arrange themselves around it, giving this lo...