Ashley and James’s Everest Base Camp Wedding: The Journey in Photographs
A wedding dress, hiking boots and a glacier stretching into the distance: Ashley and James brought a very different kind of wedding album h...
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Discover photography of snow, mountains and the natural world, from northern lights to frozen landscapes and dramatic skies. Browse the images and their stories, then explore the subjects and places that catch your eye.
Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: Why Fog Can Fill the Canyon
Some mornings, the Grand Canyon seems to trade its rock layers for an ocean. White cloud fills the spaces between the cliffs, leaving the hi...
Dale and Karlie’s Northern Lights Proposal in Lofoten
The camera was ready for the northern lights. Dale Sharpe had something else in mind. During a trip to Norway’s Lofoten Islands in March 2...
The Ferryland Iceberg of 2017: A Newfoundland Village Beside a Giant
The houses are the giveaway. Without them, the Ferryland iceberg could almost pass for a snowy mountain on the horizon. Put a row of homes ...
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...
Svalbard Glacier Comparisons: What the Historic and 2002 Photographs Reveal
At first, the mountains make these photographs look familiar. Then your eye reaches the waterline, and the difference becomes clear: places...
30 Creative Snowmen: Expressions, Animals and Winter Scenes
A scarf and a carrot are a fine start. Then someone gives their snowman a phone, turns it upside down or builds an entire crowd—and a snowy...
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...
Snow on the Sahara’s Edge: Karim Bouchetata’s Aïn Séfra Photographs
Orange dunes striped with white snow are a wonderful double take. In December 2016, photographer Karim Bouchetata captured that contrast ne...
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...
Vadim Trunov’s Winter Squirrels: The Playful Photographs and Their Setup
A squirrel peers over a camera. Another raises a snowball. Two stretch upwards beneath a pine cone, looking for all the world like tiny vol...
David Burdeny’s Antarctic Iceberg: The Geometry of Mercators Projection
Four areas of colour meet in one remarkable Antarctic photograph: pale sky, bright ice, textured water and deep shadow. David Burdeny's...
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 ...
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...
Nepal Before and After the 2015 Earthquake: A Traveller’s Photo Essay
A white summit against a blue sky is an easy image to remember. This Nepal gallery has plenty of those, but its quieter photographs deserve...
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...
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...
Andy Lee’s Patagonia Dreaming: Infrared Landscapes and Mountain Scale
Patagonia’s mountains emerge through shadow, cloud and small openings of light in Andy Lee’s photographs. Rather than offering a clear view...