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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Led by artist Sonja Hinrichsen, a 50+ volunteers trace out these enormous swirling decorative designs on the frozen Catamount Lake in Colorado.
From her project statement:
It is important to me that participants experience the elements of nature while they help me transform their own familiar snow landscape into a piece of art. I hope that the aerial photographs that I take right after completion of each piece can demonstrate also to a larger audience how the landscape is transformed into a piece of art through a system of designs. This changes our perception of the landscape and accentuates the beauty and magic of the natural environment, and thus inspires awe and appreciation for art as well as for nature. I deem this important – especially as modern society becomes increasingly disconnected from the natural world.
In 1924 the first Winter Olympics, in Chamonix France, had a mere 250 athletes, in 6 sports: skating, curling, ‘nordic skiing’, ‘bobsleigh’, ice hockey and a military patrol competition (similar to modern Biathlon).
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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.
What an amazingly beautiful collection of animal photos set in the stark of winter.
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In the thick of spring, these photos by Joni Niemela of the Finnish winter seem more beautiful to me than they might have a few months ago.
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Six of my favorites from this great set (47 photos in total) over at the Big Picture.
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Ice-induced pavement pile-up's, out of control vehicles, winter wipeouts and a smattering of death defiers. Nobody was hurt in the making of this video apart from the people who were hurt. by James Herring.
And the people aren't winning.
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Winter solitude—
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.
—Matsuo Basho
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Two days of snow, then ice
and the deer peer from the ragged curtain of trees.
Hunger wills them, hunger
pulls them to the compass of light
spilling from the farmyard pole.
They dip their heads, hold
forked hooves
above snow, turn furred ears
to scoop from the wind
the sounds of hounds, or men.
They lap at a sprinkling of grain,
pull timid mouthfuls from a stray bale.
The smallest is lame, with a leg
healed at angles, and a fused knob
where a joint once bent.
It picks, stiff, skidding its sickening limb
across the ice's dark platter.
Their fear is thick as they break a trail
to the center of their predator's range.
To know the winter
is to ginger forth from a bed in the pines,
to search for a scant meal
gleaned from the carelessness
of a killer.
Wunderlich's name lingered in the halls of my grad school when I got there. He had just won the Lambda Literary Award. He came back to with Brenda Shaughnessy, a classmate of his, to speak with us in Lucie Brock-Broido's First Book Architecture class.
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