Frozen Lake Baikal: Kristina Makeeva’s Remarkable Ice Photos
White cracks run across deep blue ice like branches, while bubbles seem to hang beneath the surface. In Kristina Makeeva’s photographs of ...
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Lake Baikal Ice Hummocks: A Landscape of Broken Blue Ice
Lake Baikal’s winter ice can break the horizon into blue slabs and ridges. These hummocks turn a flat-looking lake into a remarkably sculp...
Jim Denevan’s Lake Baikal Snow Drawing, 2010
Jim Denevan and his team used snow on Lake Baikal to create an expansive pattern of circles in 2010. Dark ice and pale snow supply the con...
Lake Baikal in Winter: Cracks, Clarity and Scale
Lake Baikal’s clear winter ice gives landscape photography an unusual foreground. Pale cracks lead the eye towards distant hills, while bl...
Lake Baikal Ice Drumming: Listening to a Frozen Surface
Lake Baikal becomes a percussion setting in this performance by the Irkutsk group associated with irkDarbuka. The musicians explore sounds...