Icehenge on Wisconsin’s Rock Lake: Five Friends and Their Ice Monument
In February 2015 a ring of clear ice pillars appeared on frozen Rock Lake, near Lake Mills in Wisconsin. Five friends had cut the blocks fr...
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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 Snowstorm: Julien Ratel’s Photos of North Iceland’s Capital
“We just arrived in the middle of a snowstorm and everything was white, snow everywhere,” wrote photographer Julien Ratel of his winter vis...
Ice at Sunset: Annie Degré’s Jewel-Like Ice Photographs from Québec
Québec photographer Annie Degré found her jewels by a river at sunset. She picked up pieces of ice from the bank, held them against the low...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: 15 Snowy Places from Banff to Japan
Snow changes a place more than any other weather. A footbridge in New York, a thatched village in Japan, a turquoise lake in the Canadian R...
20 Little Houses in Winter Scenery: Tromsø, Lapland, Iceland and the Alps
A single red cabin under snow-covered peaks near Tromsø, a yellow house among frosted trees, a hunting lodge buried to its roof in the Dolo...
Rime Ice on Mount Javornik, Slovenia: Marko Korošec’s Frozen Forest
After days of strong wind, snow and freezing fog, Slovenian weather photographer Marko Korošec climbed Mount Javornik in December 2014 and ...
Freezing Rain in Hungary’s Pilis Hills: Ice-Coated Forest, December 2014
At the start of December 2014, the wooded hills around Budapest woke up encased in ice. Branches wore coats of glaze centimetres thick, tree...
Frosted Trees in the Beskydy Mountains: Jan Bainar’s Rime Ice Photos
Every trunk in the forest wears a thick white coat on one side and bare dark bark on the other. Photographer Jan Bainar found this scene on...
Rime Ice on Fences, Towers and Trees: How Wind-Blown Ice Grows
When freezing fog blows through a wire fence, every strand can grow a white crust of ice that points straight into the wind. The result loo...
Åreskutan Ice-Covered Lift: Rime, the Åre Cable Car and Sweden’s Top Resort
Thick white ice turns a row of lift cabins into something close to sculpture in Anders Carlsson’s winter photograph from Åreskutan, the 1,4...
Kinkaku-ji in Winter: Kyoto's Golden Pavilion, History and Visiting Tips
Few sights in Japan draw a crowd faster than Kinkaku-ji under fresh snow. The Golden Pavilion in northern Kyoto is covered in gold leaf on ...
Frosty Rhine Morning: Patrick Hübschmann's Frost-Covered Willows
On one freezing morning along the Rhine in southern Germany, every tree, twig and blade of grass turned white. German photographer and grap...
Frozen Minnehaha Falls: Minneapolis’s 53-Foot Waterfall in Winter
In a hard Minnesota winter, Minnehaha Falls stops flowing and turns into a 53-foot (16 m) column of ice. The waterfall in south Minneapolis...
Erez Marom's Iceland: Winter Photos of Ice, Godafoss and the Aurora
Israeli nature photographer Erez Marom spends a month in Iceland every year, and his winter images show why: blue ice lit by gold sunlight,...
Bergen in Snow from Mount Fløyen: Espen Haagensen's Viral Photo
A lone hiker stands beside a snow-covered bench while the lights of Bergen spread out below. Norwegian photographer Espen Haagensen took th...
Oymyakon and Yakutsk: Amos Chapple’s Photos of Siberia’s Pole of Cold
Oymyakon, a village of about 500 people in Russia's Sakha Republic (Yakutia), is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on Earth....
30 Photos of Frozen Things: Ice Storms, Lake Michigan and the Polar Vortex
In the first week of January 2014, Arctic air spilled deep into the United States and Canada, and cities from Minnesota to Georgia woke to r...
Texas Ice Storm Flowers: Blooms Sealed in Clear Glaze Ice
When freezing rain swept over Texas while the plants were still in bloom, it left every flower, leaf and twig sealed inside a clear shell o...
Frozen Downhill River in a Forest: How Layered Ice and Aufeis Form
A smooth, glassy ribbon of ice snakes down a forest slope between the tree trunks, looking for all the world like a river frozen in mid-flo...
Frozen Fountains: Ten Ice-Covered Fountains From Paris to New York
When a deep freeze settles over a city, its fountains turn into ice sculptures. Spray and splashes freeze layer by layer, icicles grow from...