What are during less-frigid times simply water caves on the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Northern Wisconsin become these ice cathedrals, and AP photographer Brian Peterson has captured these stunning images from this winter.
Thomas Zakowski on 500px has captured these eery and amazing images of the lighthouse along Lake Michigan's short coated with ice. Although not photos from the recent Polar Vortex, the recent phenomenon makes these images that much easier to understand.
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Russian photographer Andrew Osokin makes the normally invisible visible. There are so many more on his LensArt profile.
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The artificial Abraham Lake in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies has become know, especially among photogs, for a rare phenomenon where bubbles get frozen right underneath its surface.
Photographer Fikret Onal says:
"The plants on the lake bed release methane gas and methane gets frozen once coming close enough to much colder lake surface and they keep stacking up below once the weather gets colder and colder during [the] winter season."
"Even though I've walked on a frozen lake before, Abraham Lake made me feel completely uneasy since the lake was not covered with snow." "Even though the icy surface was around 8-9 inches thick, it still scared the hell out of me, not only because of the fact that I could see all the cracks...and the darkness of the lake bottom through the glassy surface, but also [because of] the deep boomy, cracking sounds coming from underneath the lake's surface."
In Colorado, Utah, and New Hampshire, Brent Christensen and team of sculptors make 5,000+ icicles and then arrange them as the bones of the castles. They spray the ice bones with water twice a day to create these massive and intricate structures they call Ice Castles.
The Harbin International Ice Festival revealed some of its massive snow sculptures a few weeks before its official opening in January.
We've see the gorgeous blues, whites and greens of Jan Erik Waider's photos before. This set of shots focus on the form of the giant ice structures, putting them in a nearly abstract light.
See also Waider's Iceberg of Iceland and Greenland
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We've featured the ICE OF LAKE BAIKAL before, but here are the shards of crystal clear ice that the enormous pressure thrusts up from the surface.
From Wikipedia:
Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake, at 25 million years. Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
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Timothy Corbin captured these stunning images of trees and their roots layered with ice and icicles on the edge of Lake Ontario.
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50-year-old Brent Christensen, an artist from Alpine, Utah, makes these extraordinary ice buildings.
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Photographer Aaron Peterson ice-biking off the Upper Peninsula…
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An abandoned warehouse in flames, it took nearly 200 firefighters to battle the blaze. So cold that water sprayed on the building froze almost instantly.
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For nearly a century, the Fulton Market Cold Storage Company in Chicago has been accumulating ice and frost in its deep freezers. So when the building sold, there was a lot of defrosting to be done. Beautiful.
Time Lapse of the thaw.
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Held since 1963, the Harbin International Ice & Snow Festival can last more than a month, depending on the weather.
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The Last Iceberg: Photos by Camille Seaman
Melting Away includes photos taken in the arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica:
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
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If there were a spectrum of the state of matter, icebergs would be about halfway between sky and stone. With a lot of the structure and scale of rock with the ephemeralness of water. These absolutely stunning images come from Nuremberg-based photographer Jan Erik Waider.
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'Manhattan breaking apart in front of your eyes', says filmmaker James Balog. The largest iceberg calving captured on film.
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From Wikipedia:
Lake Baikal is the world's oldest lake, at 25 million years. Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water.
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