Icehenge on Wisconsin’s Rock Lake: A Monument Built from Ice
A ring of clear pillars stands on a white lake, catching the last warm light of the day. The shape recalls a stone monument, but the materi...
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Winter Photography: Snow, Frost & Everyday Details
Fresh snow changes more than the colour of a scene. It hides familiar edges, simplifies backgrounds and makes small traces stand out. Browse winter photographs from streets, forests and mountains, with a closer look at composition and the details that make each image distinctive. The wider landscape collection offers another way to compare viewpoints.
Akureyri in a Snowstorm: Colourful Houses in Iceland’s Winter
A green vehicle almost disappears beneath its winter covering. A red van leaves only a bright stripe above the snow. In Julien Ratel’s Akur...
Ice at Sunset: Annie’s Jewel-Like Winter Photographs from Québec
A piece of river ice can look unremarkable until the light finds its edges. In this Québec collection, photographer Annie places winter’s s...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: Fifteen Snow-Covered Settings
Winter takes several different forms across this fifteen-setting collection. A bridge, a river, a colourful house and a mountain lake each ...
20 Small Houses in Winter Landscapes: Colour, Shelter and Scale
Small houses give these winter landscapes a human scale. A patch of red paint, a snow-covered roof or a warm window can hold the eye while ...
Rime on Mount Javornik: Marko Korošec’s Frozen Landscape
A frozen forest looks different when the camera stops facing straight ahead. In these photographs from Marko Korošec’s December 2014 Javorn...
An Ice-Covered Forest in Hungary’s Pilis Region
Heavy ice can make a forest look unfamiliar. Branches become thicker, ordinary outlines change and trees bend into unexpected shapes. These...
Jan Bainar’s Frosted Trees in the Beskydy Mountains
One side of each tree seems to be wearing a white feather boa. Jan Bainar’s photographs from the Beskydy Mountains make an ordinary forest ...
Ice on Fences, Roofs and Towers: Familiar Structures Transformed
A wire fence becomes a neat grid of white projections. Elsewhere, hanging forms develop rounded openings and a tree acquires a clear icy co...
Åreskutan’s Ice-Covered Lift: A Winter Photograph by Anders Carlsson
The cabins still hang in a familiar line, but their thick white coating makes them look almost sculpted. Anders Carlsson’s photograph from ...
Kinkaku-ji in Winter: Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion and Its Garden
Gold, white and dark water make a striking winter palette. At Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, the pavilion’s colour stands out most clearly when snow ...
Patrick Hübschmann’s Frosty Rhine Morning
The willow’s branches look almost woven from pale thread. Patrick Hübschmann’s Rhine photographs find winter atmosphere in small relationsh...
Minnehaha Falls in Winter: A Changing Curtain of Ice
Minnehaha Falls looks wonderfully different when winter ice takes over its familiar drop. The Minneapolis waterfall is 53 feet high, about ...
Erez Marom’s Iceland Landscapes: Ice, Water and Unusual Light
Warm light enters an icy opening and changes the whole mood of the scene. Erez Marom’s Iceland photographs show why a cold landscape need n...
A Snowy Evening in Bergen, Photographed by Espen Haagensen
A hiker and a snowy bench sit above the lights of Bergen in Espen Haagensen's winter photograph. The city glows below, while the foregr...
Amos Chapple’s Yakutia Photographs: Oymyakon and the Journey Through Cold
Amos Chapple’s Siberian winter photographs focus on daily life as much as extreme temperatures. A frosted dog, outdoor structures and machi...
Thirty Frozen Scenes: Ice on Buildings, Water, Plants and Everyday Objects
Frost covering a statue changes the expression of an otherwise familiar face. It is a small example of winter transforming the surfaces peo...
Texas Flowers Encased in Ice: Colour beneath a Clear Coating
Clear ice gives these Texas flowers and branches a second outline. Colour remains visible beneath the coating, while small icicles stretch ...
A Frozen Channel Between Trees: Reading the Forest-Ice Photographs
A pale, smooth surface winds between trees in these forest photographs. The ice makes the slope resemble a frozen channel, with trunks prov...
Ten Frozen Fountains: Ice Patterns and Winter City Scenes
A fountain’s usual motion becomes a layered sculpture when spray and flowing water freeze. Basins, figures and edges remain partly recognis...