Antoine by Bureau A: A Small Alpine Shelter Disguised as a Rock
At first glance, ANTOINE looks like a large rock left in an alpine landscape. Then an opening gives it away. Inside the rough-looking shell...
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Ten Historic Winter-Weather Episodes in the United States
The deepest snowfall does not tell the whole story of a winter storm. Timing, buildings and the places beneath the heaviest precipitation h...
Conservation Officers Rescue a Deer from Duck Lake Near Kelowna
The first photograph is quiet: a deer stands on a pale frozen lake, with mist reducing the detail around it. The later images tell the more...
An Ice-Covered Forest in Hungary’s Pilis Region
Heavy ice can make a forest look unfamiliar. Branches become thicker, ordinary outlines change and trees bend into unexpected shapes. These...
A Transparent Frozen Lake in Slovakia’s High Tatras
Clear lake ice can create an extraordinary visual puzzle. Reflections occupy the surface while shapes below seem close enough to touch. A w...
A Burst Pipe Creates an Ice-Covered Garden in Beijing
A yellow leaf remains visible inside a clear coating of ice. Nearby branches carry long icicles, and an ordinary planted area looks briefly...
Jan Bainar’s Frosted Trees in the Beskydy Mountains
One side of each tree seems to be wearing a white feather boa. Jan Bainar’s photographs from the Beskydy Mountains make an ordinary forest ...
Harbin’s Ice and Snow Festival: A Gallery of Winter Architecture
The people at the base look tiny, but the details above them are anything but simple. Harbin’s monumental snow sculptures combine figures, ...
Northern Lights in Norway: Winter Landscapes and Realistic Expectations
A bright aurora is a wonderful sight, but the mountains, water and small buildings beneath it make these photographs worth a longer look. T...
Helsinki in Winter: Festive Streets, Waterfronts and City Life
A tram passes beneath bright street decorations, and warm windows punctuate the winter evening. Helsinki’s appeal is the easy shift between...
Inside a Siberian Crater: Researchers Photograph Its Frozen Interior
From above, the opening interrupts an otherwise pale landscape. Inside, ropes and small human figures reveal a much more complex wall of ex...
A Duck Rescue at a Frozen Pond in Norway
The final photograph is the one that stays with you: a man holds a duck after an encounter at a frozen pond. The archive presents the seque...
Lake Winnebago Ice Shove: Moving Ice Reaches a Wisconsin Backyard
The shoreline is moving, but not in the way a breaking wave moves. Jim Morgenstern’s Winnebago Ice Shove 2014 records lake ice collecting ...
Buffalo-Area Lake-Effect Snow: Photographs of a Concentrated Storm
A neighbourhood disappears beneath deep snow, while a wider view shows a sharp cloud boundary crossing the landscape. These November 2014 B...
Ice on Fences, Roofs and Towers: Familiar Structures Transformed
A wire fence becomes a neat grid of white projections. Elsewhere, hanging forms develop rounded openings and a tree acquires a clear icy co...
Giuliano Mauri’s Tree Cathedrals: Architecture, Growth and Open Sky
Repeated wooden columns create the rhythm of a cathedral aisle, but the setting is a landscape rather than an enclosed stone building. Giul...
Five European Winter Settings: Prague, Reykjavík, Abisko, Copenhagen and Venice
Prague, Reykjavík, Abisko, Copenhagen and Venice offer five very different ways to spend time in Europe during winter. Architecture, northe...
A Steep Skiing Line on Video: An Archive Clip
A slender ribbon of snow cuts through walls of rock, and suddenly the scale of the descent becomes clear. The clip widely titled “Most insa...
Five Northern US Cities Known for Cold Winters
Duluth, Grand Forks, Fargo, St. Cloud and Bismarck all appeared in the original cold-city list. The problem was the numbers beside them: wi...
Five Alaskan Landscape Photographs: Mountains, Water and Northern Light
A waterfront skyline and a bear in rushing water tell very different stories. Placed together, these photographs from the original Alaska c...
Daniel Barreto’s Woodhouses: Digital Homes Inside Imaginary Forests
A small glowing doorway appears at the base of a tree, and the forest suddenly seems inhabited. Daniel Barreto’s Woodhouses use familiar a...
Two Men Emerge from an Ice-Fishing Hole: Lenard Conlon's 2009 Video
Two men emerge through the ice-fishing hole, as BuzzFeed’s illustrated account shows. Lenard Conlon uploaded the 75-second video on 22 Mar...
10 Ski-Holiday Bases: Alpine Towns, Japan and North America
A good ski holiday begins with a useful base. Chamonix, Zermatt, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Hakuba and Girdwood all offer different starting points...
24 Ice and Snow Formations: From Frozen Bubbles to Lake Michigan Lighthouses
A bubble, a curled sheet and a spiral roll can all look like little winter sculptures. Their shapes are inviting, but they should not be gi...
Marcin Kęsek’s Tatra Mountain Photographs
A ridge catches the last warm light while the valleys below disappear into cloud. Marcin Kesek’s Tatra photographs make the mountains feel ...