A Clear Frozen Lake in Slovakia’s High Tatras: Looking Through the Ice
The stones are so easy to see that the surface almost seems to disappear. In this High Tatras video, transparent ice gives the viewer an un...
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Lake Ice: Frozen Landscapes, Patterns & Change
A frozen lake can display transparent ice, pale fractures or ridges of broken slabs. Those patterns make fascinating photographs, but appearance alone cannot establish whether a surface will support a person. This collection explores what the images show and how ice changes, with related stories on winter weather and the landscapes around it.
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Sea-Ice Scenes: Patterns, Bubbles and Blue Ice
Winter water can look like a collection of different materials: glass plates, pale bubbles, tiny flowers and long white threads. The pleasu...
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...
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...
The Sound of a Frozen Lake: Cory Williams’s Alaska Clip
The surprise in this Alaska clip is not a distant mountain or an animal appearing from the trees. It is the sound. Cory Williams reacts to ...
Lake Puma Yumco: A Mosaic of Fractured Ice
From orbit, Lake Puma Yumco looks almost like a blue mosaic assembled from uneven pieces. Pale lines cross the surface, while darker blocks...
Lake Baikal Ice Hummocks: Blue Slabs on Siberia’s Ancient Lake
Lake Baikal’s winter ice can break the horizon into blue slabs and ridges. These hummocks turn a flat-looking lake into a remarkably sculpt...
Frost Flowers on Lake Ice: A Delicate Surface Pattern
The white formations resemble tiny blossoms scattered across a frozen surface. From a distance, the repeated shapes give the scene the look...
Ten Snow, Ice and Water Landscapes: Glaciers, Mountains and Frozen Shores
Cracked lake ice, trapped bubbles and a still-water reflection offer three very different winter textures. Compare how each texture changes...
Lake Michigan Ice Balls Near South Haven
Rounded pieces of ice crowd the Lake Michigan shoreline in this South Haven clip. Their colour and repeated shapes create a striking patter...
The May 2013 Ice Shoves at Mille Lacs and Dauphin Lake
Ice moving from a lake towards buildings gives these May 2013 reports their unsettling power. The footage shows an ice shove: wind-driven l...
A Car Recovered from an Opening in Lake Ice
A car has gone through lake ice, and the people beside it are faced with the problem of bringing it back out. Yuri Danilov's recovery c...