Jonathan Nimerfroh’s Slushy Waves on Nantucket
The waves still curl, but they seem to have acquired a different texture. In Jonathan Nimerfroh’s Nantucket photographs, the nearshore wate...
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A Dramatic Snow-Clearing Moment Caught on Video
Most people reach for a brush when snow covers the car. Chad Wilson’s 2015 video takes a much louder route, using a powerful car-audio syst...
Niagara Falls in Winter: Ice-Coated Viewpoints and Frozen Spray
At Niagara Falls, winter can turn railings into white sculptures and build enormous rounded forms below the falling water. The scene looks ...
Ice-Storm Bumper Shells Left Behind by Parked Cars
The parking space is empty, but the front of a Jeep seems to remain. In these North Carolina photographs from 2015, a thin shell of ice hol...
Karol Nienartowicz’s Mountain Tents: Six Years of Camps and Landscapes
A tent is a small subject for a mountain photograph, but that is precisely why it works. In Karol Nienartowicz’s collection, it gives the l...
Team Rwanda Cycling Encounters Snow in Moab: A Photograph from 2007
The bicycles are still close at hand, but the riders’ attention has shifted to a patch of snow beside the road. It is a small, cheerful int...
A Coast Guard Rescue of a Labrador from Icy Michigan Water
Among the floating ice, the rescuers’ red equipment is the first thing the eye finds. Then the dog comes into focus. The Frankfort rescue p...
New Hampshire’s Ice Castles in Daylight and Colour: A Winter Film
A corridor of icicles opens overhead, and a small figure beneath it suddenly looks very small indeed. These New Hampshire Ice Castles image...
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Sorin Radu’s Snowboarding Avalanche Footage
A helmet camera makes a mountain scene feel close and immediate. In Sorin Radu’s avalanche footage, that closeness becomes unsettling: the ...
The Original Nomad Collapsible Tub: A Portable Outdoor Bath Design
A bright yellow tub beside a forest stream is an unexpected sight. The Original Nomad’s portable bathing concept, featured in 2015, takes a...
A Concrete Cabin in Graubünden: Familiar Form, Unexpected Material
At first glance, Refugi Lieptgas has the reassuring outline of a small Alpine hut. Move closer and the familiar horizontal walls become som...
A Train Ploughs Through Deep Snow in Salisbury, New Brunswick
At first, the snow cloud seems to arrive on its own. Then the red front of a locomotive appears within it, and the scale of the scene becom...
Rolling Up Snow: An Unusual Winter Demonstration
A small roll of snow becomes a much larger one, leaving an unexpectedly green strip of lawn behind it. Joshua Jordan’s winter clip has the ...
Ben Coffman on Photographing the Milky Way and the Landscapes Beneath It
In Ben Coffman’s photographs, the stars have company. A glowing tent, a mountain reflected in still water or the dark outline of a canyon g...
Will Gadd’s Ice-Climbing Journey on Kilimanjaro
The ice looks almost architectural: a pale wall rising from dark, exposed ground, with a climber small against its face. Christian Pondella...
Icehenge on Wisconsin’s Rock Lake: A Monument Built from Ice
A ring of clear pillars stands on a white lake, catching the last warm light of the day. The shape recalls a stone monument, but the materi...
Akureyri in a Snowstorm: Colourful Houses in Iceland’s Winter
A green vehicle almost disappears beneath its winter covering. A red van leaves only a bright stripe above the snow. In Julien Ratel’s Akur...
Caldwell and Jorgeson on the Dawn Wall: What Free Climbing Means
Some of the most revealing Dawn Wall photographs are the quiet ones. A hanging camp, a taped hand or a small circle of headlamp light shows...
Ice at Sunset: Annie’s Jewel-Like Winter Photographs from Québec
A piece of river ice can look unremarkable until the light finds its edges. In this Québec collection, photographer Annie places winter’s s...
The Scale of Nature: Jakub Polomski’s People in the Alps
Find the people first—or try to. In Jakub Polomski’s The Scale of Nature , human figures can be so small that the mountains seem to reveal ...
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Courchevel’s Cable-Car Bedroom: An Alpine Airbnb Competition Concept
A cable car normally gives you a few minutes with a mountain view. In Courchevel’s 2015 Airbnb promotion, the idea was to stretch that mome...