Dale and Karlie’s Northern Lights Proposal in Lofoten
The camera was ready for the northern lights. Dale Sharpe had something else in mind.
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Europe: Mountains & Winter Destinations
Explore Europe's mountains, alpine scenery and winter destinations through stories and photography. Browse the Alps and northern landscapes, then discover country collections for skiing, snowboarding and outdoor adventures.
Northern Lights Destinations: Places, Conditions and Different Ways to Experience the Sky
There is a lovely moment on an aurora night when everyone stops checking their phone and simply looks up. Choosing where to travel can help...
A Moose in Broken Lake Ice: The Swedish Rescue Account
A skating outing became an unexpected wildlife encounter when a group in Sweden found a moose struggling in broken lake ice. The animal cou...
Kristina Makeeva’s Frozen Lake Baikal: Ice Patterns, Reflections and Scale
White cracks run across deep blue ice like branches, while bubbles seem to hang beneath the surface. In Kristina Makeeva’s photographs of f...
The Gimmelwald Cat and the Hiker: An Unexpected Alpine Encounter
A black-and-white cat, an Alpine trail and a hiker with a sore ankle: it is an excellent beginning for an unexpected mountain story. The en...
Norway’s Nature House: A Cob Home Inside a Glass Dome
A glass dome on a snowy Norwegian island sounds like the setting for a fairy tale. Inside this one, the details are delightfully domestic: ...
A Wolf-Shaped Aurora: Marja-Terttu Karlsson’s Remarkable Photograph
First you see the green sweep of the northern lights. Then a pointed muzzle, an arched back and what looks remarkably like an animal boundi...
An Alpine Mountain Coaster Ride: The Track and the View
A shining metal track curves through green Alpine slopes, with mountains filling the view ahead. Brice Milleson's Switzerland Mountain ...
Simon Beck’s Snowshoe Murals: Drawing a Design by Walking
From ground level, a snowshoe print is just a mark left behind. Seen from above, thousands of carefully placed prints can become a star, a ...
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 3: A Skier’s View of an Inventive Film
A pair of ski tips, a snowy approach and a dark opening in the rock ahead: even the still from Candide Thovex’s One of those days 3 makes ...
Tomi Rantanen’s Inari Aurora Time-Lapse: A Lake Beneath a Moving Sky
The boat stays still. The lake catches the colour. Above them, the northern lights seem to paint a new sky every few seconds. Tomi Rantanen...
The Milky Way and Aurora in Maciej Winiarczyk’s Scottish Night Sky
A still boat and a dark Scottish loch would already make a lovely foreground for the Milky Way. Add a green aurora to the sky and the photo...
Martina Bisaz’s Switzerland: Reflections, Mountain Roads and Small Details
Turquoise water beneath snowy trees. An orange camper van beside a mountain road. A small figure reflected in a lake. Martina Bisaz’s Switze...
Horacio Llorens Beneath the Northern Lights: An Arctic Night Flight
An illuminated paraglider wing hangs beneath a sweep of green light. The pilot looks tiny against the sky, and that difference in scale is ...
Joni Niemelä’s Finnish Night Sky: Moonlight, Reflections and Star Trails
A moon above a pine forest can be every bit as absorbing as a sky full of northern lights. In Joni Niemelä’s Finnish night photographs, snow...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Transform Ordinary Lights
A row of lights seems to have stretched straight up from a snowy neighbourhood. Blue, yellow and white columns hang above the roofs, as tho...
Frozen Soap Bubbles: ZALUSKArt’s Close-Up Winter Film
A clear soap bubble sits on snow. Then tiny feather-like shapes appear, drift and spread until the little sphere looks etched. ZALUSKArt’s ...
Laura Wagemakers’s Snowy Alps: Ski-Day Landscape Photography
The first thing to notice in Laura Wagemakers’s Alps photographs is how much blue there is in the snow. Sunlit slopes appear almost white, ...
A Slow-Moving Avalanche in Valais: Why Pace Does Not Describe Its Force
There is no need for a towering powder cloud to make an avalanche formidable. In Christian Mermoud’s footage from Mayens-de-Saxon, in Switz...
Jenny Ayrton’s Miniature Glass Worlds: Everyday Scenes in Cast Glass
A washing line, a bench, a little red boat: Jenny Ayrton’s glass sculptures begin with things that are easy to walk past. Enclosed in clear,...