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Brendan Schaffer’s Snow Campfire: Flames Sculpted from Winter Snow
It looks ready for a marshmallow, but this campfire has a very different relationship with heat. Schaffer Art Studios shaped snow into a st...
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Andrew Muse’s Snowkiting Film: Wind, Snow and a First-Person View
A snowkiter appears several times across a blue sky, tracing an arc above a small snow-covered building. The surviving image from this Andr...
Ronn Murray’s Real-Time Aurora Film Near Fairbanks, January 2015
The dark trees hardly change, but the green light above them keeps finding new shapes. Ronn Murray’s aurora film invites a different kind o...
Night-Sky Landscapes: Stars, Silhouettes and Reflections
A brilliant sky is only part of a successful night photograph. A figure, a line of stones or a reflection can change the whole feeling of t...
Jokkmokk in Winter: Sámi Market Traditions and Snow Architecture
Jokkmokk’s winter market brings people into the streets when the season might otherwise encourage staying indoors. Stalls, performances and...
Marko Korošec’s Ice-Covered Trees and Tower on Mount Javornik
A ladder, a branch and a lookout post become strange new objects in Marko Korošec’s photographs from Mount Javornik in Slovenia. Thick whit...
15 Cars and Windows Transformed by Frost, Ice and Snow
A car window can become a surprisingly good place to notice winter. One morning it holds a forest of tiny branches; another reveals a spide...
Candide Thovex’s First-Person Ski Film: Trees, Tunnels and Unexpected Turns
The pleasure of One of Those Days 2 is how quickly the ordinary turns surprising. A recognisable ski setting becomes a sequence of improba...
Griffin Lamb’s Outdoor Landscapes: A Washington-Based Portfolio
A canoe bow points toward mountains that seem to continue beneath the water. In Griffin Lamb’s lake photographs, stillness is built from si...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: Fifteen Snow-Covered Settings
Winter takes several different forms across this fifteen-setting collection. A bridge, a river, a colourful house and a mountain lake each ...
An Under-Ice Firework Stunt Caught on Camera
Some viral winter clips are memorable because they interrupt an otherwise quiet scene. This 2015 Swedish video, uploaded by William Bremer,...
Candide Thovex’s Skiing POV: Performance and the Art of the Edit
The ski tips remain near the bottom of the frame while the world ahead keeps changing. That simple visual arrangement is a large part of th...
Arlberg, Austria: Skiing Heritage and Alpine Village Landscapes
A ski region is more than the number printed beside its piste map. Where you stay, how you reach the lifts and what you want to do after sk...
Freezing Soap Bubbles: Patterns Forming on a Delicate Surface
A transparent bubble slowly acquires pale, branching patterns. What began as a nearly invisible film becomes a small moving display of ice....
Vatnajökull and Its National Park: Icelandic Ice, Caves and Landscapes
Vatnajökull is not one blue cave or one viewpoint. Iceland’s great ice cap feeds a varied landscape of glacier tongues, lagoons and mountai...
27 Mountain and Rock Landscapes: A Gallery Across Continents
A snowy summit, rounded hills, coastal cliffs and a river bordered by rock pillars offer very different versions of a dramatic landscape. T...
The Bartz Brothers’ Giant Snow Turtle and Their Sea-Life Sculptures
A snow turtle has settled into a Minnesota front yard, and it is considerably bigger than the people standing beside it. This is the cheerf...
Two Lands: An Aurora Photography Journey Through Greenland and Iceland
The aurora may be the headline attraction, but Joe Capra’s photographs give you plenty to enjoy beneath it. Rivers, ice, buildings and snow...
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13 Igloo-Inspired Shelters, Sculptures and Unusual Designs
A dome is a wonderfully adaptable shape. In this collection, it appears in coloured ice, snow, reused containers and a transparent tent. Th...
Harbin’s 2015 Winter Festival: Illuminated Ice and Monumental Snow Sculpture
Harbin’s winter artworks change character with the light. In daytime, ice blocks reveal their edges and translucent surfaces. After dark, c...
A Snow-Day Traffic Queue on Crete’s Psiloritis, January 2015
Crete is often pictured through beaches and bright coastal villages. This aerial clip offers a different view: a mountain road threads thro...
Riverboarding on the Aletsch Glacier: Gailland and Janin Photographed by David Carlier
A blue channel cuts through pale glacier ice, and two small figures move within it. David Carlier’s photographs of Claude-Alain Gailland an...
20 Small Houses in Winter Landscapes: Colour, Shelter and Scale
Small houses give these winter landscapes a human scale. A patch of red paint, a snow-covered roof or a warm window can hold the eye while ...
Bao Bao’s First Snow Day with Mei Xiang at the National Zoo
A snowy slope, a young panda and plenty of movement: Bao Bao’s first snow video is an easy invitation to pause for a smile. The Smithsonian...
Mount Fuji and Chureito Pagoda: Understanding Japan’s Iconic View
Mount Fuji has a distinctive outline, but the foreground can make each photograph feel new. A red pagoda, a quiet lake or flowering branche...
Joe Capra’s Greenland and Iceland Film as Scientifantastic
Some short films reward a second look because the scenery is rich enough to divide your attention. Joe Capra’s Two Lands — Greenland & ...
Japanese Macaques in the Warm Water at Jigokudani
The camera sits close enough to make whiskers, wet fur and small movements part of the scene. GoPro’s April 2013 snow-monkey film offers an...
Rime on Mount Javornik: Marko Korošec’s Frozen Landscape
A frozen forest looks different when the camera stops facing straight ahead. In these photographs from Marko Korošec’s December 2014 Javorn...
Chris Calvert’s Close-Up Film of a Growing Ice Crystal
A few pale branches against a dark background can hold as much visual interest as a mountain panorama. This close-up, attributed in the ori...
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Nine Glacier Comparisons from Montana: Reading the Historic and Repeat Views
Two photographs from a similar viewpoint can make a changing landscape easier to understand. In Glacier National Park, historic and repeat ...