{ Snow car, Winter festival in Shawano, Wisconsin }

{ Simpsons’ sofa in Omaha, Nebraska } + { One more execution }

{ Homer }

Team USA (Breckenridge), Discovery ~ Winner of the 2006 International Snow Sculpture Championship { 2006 ISSC winners }

{ Dragon, Snow Festival in China | “Snow” | Chameleon, Snow Festival in London }

{ Horses } + { Hands }

{ Ice truck }

{ Marilyn Monroe, E.T. }

{ Snow intercourse }

{ more }

{ Antarctic Icebergs }

This spectacular picture of a monster iceberg has been circulating all over the world in emails that claim it is a genuine photograph. It allegedly shows an iceberg floating on the ocean and at the same time allows us to see what icebergs look like below the water.

The photographer, Ralph A. Clevenger, says he created it from a composite of four images. “I made the image as a way of illustrating the concept of what you get is not necessarily what you see. As a professional photographer I knew that I couldn’t get an actual shot of an iceberg the way I envisioned it, so I created the final image by compositing several images I had taken.” The halves of his iceberg are two separate photos of two different icebergs. One was in Alaska and the other was in Antarctica. He didn’t take either of the shots underwater. “The only underwater part is the background taken off the coast of California. The sky is the last component. It took a lot of research on lighting and scale to get the berg to look real.” { bigpond }

{ Frozen tidal wave }

{ Ochevidec }

{ Frozen Cars }

Drivers along U.S. 19 near Rivesville, W.Va. get a colorful ice display thanks to Rich DeMary, 43, who mixed food coloring into gallon jugs of water, then poured them over icicles hanging off the rocks, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007. DeMary, who lives in the small Marion County town, says he’s been doing this for about eight years, just to brighten the day of passers-by. He created this display last week. { AP }

{ Photoshopped snake }

related { Changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets }

previously { The Snowflake Man }

READ MORE >> monomania, water | January 23rd, 2007