Amtrak Train Hits Snow at Rhinecliff: Nick Colvin’s Slow-Motion Video
A southbound Amtrak train sweeps into Rhinecliff station, New York, and meets a track buried under fresh snow. In Nick Colvin’s slow-motion...
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Snow Photography & Winter Landscapes
Explore snow photography and stories from winter landscapes around the world. Browse snowy scenes and unusual moments, then continue into collections on winter weather, powder snow, ice formations and creative snow art.
Snow in the Sahara: Karim Bouchetata's Aïn Séfra Photos, December 2016
On 19 December 2016, snow fell on the orange dunes outside Aïn Séfra, a town in northwestern Algeria sometimes called the "gateway to ...
How an Igloo Keeps You Warm: Snow Insulation, Cold Traps and Inuit Design
Outside, the air can fall to −45 °C. Inside a well-built igloo warmed by nothing more than the people sleeping in it, the temperature can s...
Brooklyn Igloo on Airbnb: The $200 Snow Shelter of the 2016 Blizzard
When the January 2016 blizzard buried New York under a record 27.5 inches of snow, Brooklyn art director Patrick M. Horton and his roommate...
Vera Kovaleva Feeds Kartal’s Street Cats in Snowy Istanbul
Every day of a snowy Istanbul winter, cats came running along narrow paths cut through the drifts to meet one woman carrying food. A video ...
Casey Neistat Snowboarding New York: The 2016 Blizzard Film
On January 23, 2016, New York City was buried under the deepest snowfall in its recorded history, and its roads were closed to traffic. The...
Skiing the Alps with a Camera: Laura Wagemakers’s Snowy Day
After a winter that started with almost no snow, it finally snowed for days in the Alps, and then the sun came out. Laura Wagemakers took h...
Janitor's Revenge: The Zigzag Snow Path Video and Why People Follow It
After a heavy snowfall, someone cleared a path across an open, snow-covered square, but instead of a straight line they shovelled a long, l...
Slow Wet-Snow Avalanche at Mayens-de-Saxon, Valais: Hear the Trees Snap
Most famous avalanche videos show a white cloud racing down a mountain. Christian Mermoud's clip from Mayens-de-Saxon in the Swiss cant...
19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
Animal Snow Sculptures: The Bartz Brothers' Shark, Walrus and More
Snow is a surprisingly good sculpting material. Packed, softened and left to refreeze, it can be carved into a 16-foot shark, a walrus tall...
Snow Quotes: 32 Lines from Frost, Dickinson, Carroll and Modern Writers
Snow has inspired writers for as long as it has fallen on their windows. These snow quotes collect sixteen short lines from classic poets, ...
101-Year-Old Albina Foisy Makes a Snowball in Lillooet, British Columbia
On 19 November 2015, fresh snow covered the roadside near Lillooet, British Columbia. Armand Foisy was driving his mother, Albina, then 101...
Zoofi the Kitten Sees Snow for the First Time: How Cats Watch Snowflakes
Zoofi was four months old when he saw snow for the first time. He did not go outside to meet it. He sat at a window, watched the flakes dri...
Swiss Alps in Black and White: Mikołaj Gospodarek’s Mountain Photos
Strip the colour out of a mountain photograph and what remains is shape, light and texture. Polish landscape photographer Mikołaj Gospodarek...
15 Winter Landscapes: Mont Blanc, Niagara, Seljalandsfoss and Lake Tahoe
Snow changes a landscape overnight. It hides the clutter of a field, draws white lines along every ridge and turns long shadows into the mai...
Snow Tunnel to a Buried Car: Marcel Landry’s Summerside Dig in 2015
Marcel Landry of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, dug a tunnel roughly 25 feet long through the drifts outside his home to reach his burie...
Red Fox Hunting Mice in Deep Snow: The Mousing Leap Explained
A red fox stands motionless on a snowfield, head cocked, ears pointed at the ground. Then it springs high into the air and dives headfirst i...
Bass Snow Removal: Chad Wilson’s Subwoofers Shake Snow Off a Car
Most people clear a snowed-in car with a brush and a scraper. Chad Wilson used six subwoofers. In his clip “Bass snow removal. Turn down for...
Team Rwanda Cycling Sees Snow in Moab, Utah: The 2007 Photograph
The bikes are leaning nearby, but the riders have forgotten them. Members of Team Rwanda Cycling have stopped beside a patch of roadside sno...