A Golden Retriever and Her Puppies Explore the Snow
The mother dog is easy to follow. Keeping track of the puppies is another matter. Susan Menne’s Butternut Goldens clip fills an ordinary pa...
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Tent-Door Views in the Fann Mountains
The tent door creates an instant frame. Beyond it, a lake or mountain fills the opening, while the small signs of camping in the foreground...
Yading: Mountain Scenery within a Tibetan Cultural Landscape
Autumn colour brings warmth into Yading’s high mountain scenery. A stream threads through the foreground, while rock and snow hold the dist...
Alex Bellini’s Adrift Proposal: An Expedition Idea on Moving Ice
Most expedition plans begin with a destination. Alex Bellini's Adrift proposal began with a place that would keep moving and changing: ...
A Grizzly Encounter on a Jasper Mountain-Bike Ride
Dense forest leaves little space between the camera and what may be just beyond it. Brad Paras’ Jasper grizzly recording is unsettling part...
Ten Ice-Cave Settings: Glaciers, Rock Caves and Managed Galleries
Blue walls and an enclosed passage can make very different places look similar in photographs. The phrase “ice cave” is often used loosely,...
McMurdo Sound: Ice, Wildlife and Antarctic Research
A pale foreground stretches towards a dark mountain, and low light briefly warms the edge of an otherwise cold scene. Around McMurdo Sound,...
Juha Salo’s Seal-Pup Encounter on Finland’s Coast
The seal pup is small, pale and unexpectedly close. Juha Salo’s recording captures the kind of wildlife encounter that makes viewers want t...
Aspen Snowmass: Four Mountains and a Town Beyond the Slopes
Aspen’s winter photographs move easily from white slopes to warmly lit streets. That contrast is part of the appeal: the ski day and the ev...
Columbia Icefield Skywalk: A Glass View over the Valley
At the Columbia Icefield Skywalk, the view does not stop at the railing. A curved glass-floored platform carries the eye straight down into...
Martin Bailey’s Antarctic Icebergs: Natural Forms and Imagined Buildings
An iceberg can resemble a palace from one angle and a broken wall from another. Martin Bailey’s Antarctic photographs invite those comparis...
Winter in the Karkonosze: Snow, Summit Buildings and Borderland Views
Rounded summit buildings emerge from a white landscape, and long blue shadows give shape to the snow. Winter simplifies the Karkonosze into...
Daniel Zvereff’s Arctic Aerochrome Photographs
The shapes remain recognisable, but the colours seem to belong to another place. Daniel Zvereff’s Arctic photographs use Aerochrome infrare...
Oeschinensee: A Mountain-Lake Visit for the Right Season and Route
In this article Oeschinensee and the journey from Kandersteg Gondola access, lakeside walks and higher trails Oeschinensee in winter: walks,...
Lapland’s Northern Lights: Folklore, Foregrounds and Uncertain Skies
A road disappears into the snow, while colour spreads across the sky above it. Lapland’s aurora photographs are especially inviting when th...
Torres del Paine and Its Patagonian Setting
Golden vegetation, blue water and the dark-topped Cuernos create a beautifully layered Patagonian scene. Torres del Paine has a recognisabl...
Nicholas Buer’s Night Landscapes: The Ground Beneath the Light
The aurora supplies the colour, but the rocks tell the eye where to settle. Nicholas Buer’s night photographs give as much thought to the l...
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Fifteen Ice Sculptures: Form, Transparency and Light
A horn becomes visible where it catches the light. A wing needs shadow between its layers. Ice sculpture asks the viewer to look at the mat...
Ten Iceland Experiences: Waterfalls, Glaciers, Hot Springs and City Life
Iceland makes it wonderfully easy to collect travel ideas. A waterfall, an urban skyline, a volcanic landscape and a whale surfacing offsho...
The Krystall Hotel Concept: A Snowflake-Shaped Aurora Retreat
A snowflake-shaped building floats beneath a green sky, with water reflecting its bright outline. The Krystall hotel concept brought two at...
The Wim Hof Method: Evidence, Claims and Important Limits
Claims about controlling the immune system deserve a closer look than an impressive photograph in the snow. The Wim Hof Method combines bre...
Nele Azevedo’s Ice Figures: A Temporary Memorial in Birmingham
The figures are small enough to hold in a hand. Together, seated across the steps, they become a crowd. Nele Azevedo’s Birmingham installat...
Dustin Farrell’s Time-Lapse Landscapes
A landscape film can make us notice something a still photograph leaves open: how the scene changes. Dustin Farrell’s time-lapse work was t...
Mount Robson Provincial Park: A Mountain, a Lake and Different Journeys
The glacier, lake and mountain seem to occupy different layers of the same enormous scene. Mount Robson gives this part of the Canadian Roc...
Mendenhall’s Blue-Ice Interiors: Photographs of a Changing Glacier
Blue light reaches into a space of curved walls and rough stone. Mendenhall’s ice-cave photographs are striking because the glacier becomes...
Semyon Bukharin’s Snow Drawings in an Izhevsk Schoolyard
The schoolyard is familiar: open ground, a bare tree and snow waiting to be cleared. Then the lines resolve into a scene. Semyon Bukharin’s...