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...
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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: ...
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...
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...
An Alpine Mountain Coaster Ride: The Track and the View
A shining metal track curves through green Alpine slopes, with mountains filling the view ahead. Brice Milleson's Switzerland Mountain ...
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...
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 ...
The Gulmarg Snow Leopard Encounter: What the Trip Account Clarified
A shape in the snow suddenly became a very memorable part of a ski day in Gulmarg. The 2016 footage shows an unexpected encounter with a sn...
Candide Thovex’s One of Those Days 3: A Skier’s View of an Inventive Film
A pair of ski tips, a snowy approach and a dark opening in the rock ahead: even the still from Candide Thovex’s One of those days 3 makes ...
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...
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...