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...
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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...
How an Igloo Slows Heat Loss: Snow, Air and Shelter
A shelter made of snow seems an unlikely place to warm up. Yet an igloo works because snow is much more than frozen water: it also contains...
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...
Figure Skating on an Alpine Lake: Bradley Friesen’s Mountain Film
A skater crosses a dark, glassy lake while mountains rise around her and repeat themselves in the reflection. The scene in Bradley Friesen...
Lake Superior Ice Stacking: Dawn LaPointe’s Duluth Shoreline Film
Lake Superior can sound like a cupboard full of glass when its ice starts moving. In Dawn M. LaPointe’s film from Duluth, thin plates gathe...
Boston’s Snowy Streets in Clayton Vila and Cam Riley’s Ski Film
Brick buildings, narrow streets and an extraordinary amount of snow: Boston supplied a memorable backdrop for Clayton Vila and Cam Riley’s ...
Sloan Henderson’s First Snowboarding Clip: A Small Family Winter Moment
A tiny snowboard, a bobble hat and a very small rider: the image of Sloan Henderson in the snow still has plenty of charm. The family momen...
Finn’s Snow Maze: A Small Dog Finds a Route Through a Deep Snowfall
For a small dog, a deep snowfall can turn the garden into a very tall obstacle. Finn’s owner found a cheerful solution: shovel a network of...
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...
The Brooklyn Snow Shelter Listed on Airbnb During the 2016 Blizzard
Some people saw the January 2016 blizzard as a lot of shovelling. Patrick M. Horton and his Brooklyn roommates saw a property listing. Thei...
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 ...
Feeding Community Cats in a Snowy Istanbul Neighbourhood
The cats appear one after another along a narrow route through the snow. A woman carries food between the white banks, and the scene fills ...
Casey Neistat’s Snowboarding New York Film: A City Transformed by a Blizzard
New York’s streets rarely look like a ski film. In January 2016, a major snowstorm supplied a white backdrop, and Casey Neistat turned it i...
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, ...
Janitor’s Revenge: The Winding Snow Path That Became a Visual Joke
The route is clear. It is just wonderfully indirect. In the clip circulated as Janitor’s Revenge , a narrow path snakes across an open area...
Frozen Flowers in Minnesota: A Familiar Material Becomes Brittle
A flower is usually all bend, softness and movement. That makes the sudden brittleness in Minnesota Cold’s frozen-flower video so surprisin...
Hot Water in Extreme Cold: What the White Cloud Does and Does Not Prove
A pale fan opens above a snowy yard and hangs in the air. Videos of hot water meeting extreme cold look like instant snowfall, but that tid...