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50 Beautiful Winter Wonderland Photos
As winter approaches in the northern hemisphere and the nights draw in, our thoughts turn to the beauty of ice and snow. Winter photography, especially in the colder parts of the world, is a specialized niche. Photographers have to take care of their cameras and guard against frostbite and hypothermia. They often venture into remote wilderness searching for the perfect winter landscape. Their reward is stunning imagery.
As a tribute to these hardy men and women, we bring you 50 beautiful winter wonderland photos. We included both colorful photos (especially the colors of sunrise and sunset bring out the beauty of the winter landscape) and black-and-white photos (they bring out the contrast in tones between snow and the landscape). We’ve linked the photographers’ names to their portfolios or websites, so that you can explore their work. We’ve also listed some informative articles about cold-weather photography at the bottom of the post.
You may also want to take a look at the following related posts:
- 35 Beautiful Examples of Rain Photography
- 60 Beautiful Examples Of Night Photography
- 50 Stunning Underwater Photos
- 25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots
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50 Beautiful Winter Wonderland Photos
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Resources
- 10 Amazing HDR Photos Of Winter
- Winter Landscapes
- ePHOTOzine – Severe cold-weather photography
Interview with cold-weather photographer Jack Jackson. - Surviving cold-weather photography
Learn how to look after your camera gear. - Tips for cold-weather photography
- How to use your camera in cold weather
- Ice safety
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You may also want to take a look at the following related posts:
- 35 Beautiful Examples of Rain Photography
- 60 Beautiful Examples Of Night Photography
- 50 Stunning Underwater Photos
- 25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots
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Andrew Gibson is a photographer and writer. He runs Magical Places Fine Art, an online photography magazine and another great photography resource.
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November 23rd, 2008 4:00 pmSweet 404.
- 3November 23rd, 2008 4:01 pm
Veryy nice list, think i may have a new background
- 4November 23rd, 2008 4:21 pm
oh my god i cold :)))
- 5November 23rd, 2008 4:31 pm
what is that white powder everywhere?
- 6November 23rd, 2008 4:32 pm
#1 e_anka is right. 52 by Unknown is just flipped horizontally & changed a little bit. I think it shouldn’t be on the list ;-)
- 7November 23rd, 2008 4:36 pm
photoshopped.
- 8November 23rd, 2008 4:38 pm
More web development – usability – page layout – etc.stuff. I click ads.
- 9November 23rd, 2008 4:41 pm
Great set!
- 10November 23rd, 2008 4:52 pm
what’s wrong with using photoshop? is part of digital photography, get over it, people.
- 11November 23rd, 2008 4:56 pm
4, 6 and 18 aren’t ’special’ enough in my opinion. All the others make want to ride sleighs, drink hot choco and take long walks through open snowy countrysides :-)
- 12November 23rd, 2008 5:03 pm
i like *joffo 1 ;)
- 13November 23rd, 2008 5:09 pm
Can’t help but laugh at the phallic icicles of #4.
- 14November 23rd, 2008 7:25 pm
As always, very nice collection. But don’t you guys think it’s time to find another word other than ‘Beautiful’? No? Just going to keep using that word for every post? Ok, thats cool… way to be.
- 15November 23rd, 2008 9:41 pm
A few of them are IR photos and not truly ‘winter’ but very nice nonetheless!
- 16November 23rd, 2008 10:00 pm
really excellent and amazing images. very nice…….
- 17November 23rd, 2008 10:19 pm
Feeling Chill :-)
Good Collection - 18
- 19November 23rd, 2008 10:59 pm
Winter is beautiful !
- 20November 23rd, 2008 11:33 pm
isnt the 1st unknown one a xp default image? ^^
- 21November 24th, 2008 12:09 am
Feeling Chill & nice
- 22November 24th, 2008 12:10 am
Fantastique, un peu de rêve pour commencer la semaine, cool !!!
- 23November 24th, 2008 12:18 am
The photo of Eleanor Rigby is an IR shot. The rest not.
- 24November 24th, 2008 12:20 am
I needed cheering up, so thanks. They are stunning!
- 25November 24th, 2008 12:30 am
Thank you for showing one of my photos here :) Really beautiful collection.
- 26November 24th, 2008 12:47 am
Sesjusz’s one is infrared too. I think is part infrared (trees) and part not (street, field and grass). ;-)
- 27November 24th, 2008 12:55 am
May I correct that the link to anders r. naesset’s photo http://pheelfresh.deviantart.com/art/The-Winter-Storm-75326589 is http://pheelfresh.deviantart.com/
- 28November 24th, 2008 12:56 am
Sesjusz’s one is infrared too.
No it’s not…
Nice collection! Brrr… - 29November 24th, 2008 1:07 am
Wow, these are truly stunning images! These are getting me in the mood for Christmas already. I’m spoiled for choice as to which I’d like for my desktop ;)
- 30November 24th, 2008 2:05 am
An inspiration to get my DSLR camera out again…
http://www.richescreative.co.uk - 31November 24th, 2008 3:23 am
Very Nice Photos!! I’ s Christmas Time!!
- 32November 24th, 2008 3:42 am
Excellent pics!!! Very nice collection ….smashing rocks…
- 33November 24th, 2008 3:43 am
so cold… nice pics.. breathtaking views in some of them!
- 34November 24th, 2008 3:53 am
Hey guys… where are the Images !? i have to click on then to see it? my God!… let’s use pictures like it was before.. about the set.. nice ;)
[ http://www.v8webdesign.com ] - 35November 24th, 2008 4:34 am
Damn thats some nice image.. will use some as wallpaper here.
thanks - 36November 24th, 2008 4:45 am
I have said this before…
Most color pictures just seem to punch you in the face with a contrast festival.
Black and white are much better.
Question: Is contrast becoming a standard to make pictures stand out ? - 37November 24th, 2008 5:08 am
“Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for designers and Web developers”
How exactly are photos useful and innovative information for web designers? I appreciate a good photo as much as anyone else, but I have actual photography sites I visit when I want to look at those.
Maybe Smashing should open up SmashingPhotographs.com. Top 50 photos alongside jQuery scripting just doesn’t make sense.
- 38November 24th, 2008 5:47 am
Amazing photos, an inspiration to dig out the DSLR. Not as many IR photos as I thought there would be.
- 39November 24th, 2008 5:54 am
@jon
Did you never heard of inspiration or using bits for illustration?Diversity is key! Keep up the good work!
- 40November 24th, 2008 8:04 am
Very beautiful photos!
- 41November 24th, 2008 8:07 am
#6 leszek – in my opinion 52 by unknown is original, and 19 is flipped and photoshopped. You can see it in the details ( darker, more blurred, less detail, blurred wall on the right side of the photo – where on 52 is some broken branch of the tree or vine, removed horizontal bars from lanterns, removed the girl with umbrella – but still part of umbrella shadow can be seen on the right side of the photo :)
I don’t mind using photoshop to postprocess my photos. I do mind using photoshop to take someone else’s photo, change it and display as my own, without crediting photo’s author. - 42November 24th, 2008 8:21 am
Yes! It does make country proud, home very so. I like!
- 43November 24th, 2008 8:25 am
19 is def. photoshopped. Drag both images off and open in photoshop and they align perfectly.
- 44November 24th, 2008 8:56 am
Thanks for sharing! I should change my background for the Christmas coming…Link[http://www.xmas9.com]
- 45November 24th, 2008 9:40 am
I missed this nice one in the list: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cresk/2131371737
- 46November 24th, 2008 9:48 am
Nice pictures but I find them more frustrating than anything else – why are they all such low resolution? Monitors get bigger all the time.
I am in need of beautiful wallpapers at least 3360 x 1080, thus I wont be keeping an eye on any of the artists mentioned here :(
- 47November 24th, 2008 10:45 am
To those whining that this isn’t webdevelopmentstuff …
” i n s p i r a t i o n ” ;p
And besides , I believe every self respecting web designer should be abled to take decent pictures as any self respecting web designer wouldn’t dare use pictures he didn’t make by himself :p
- 48November 24th, 2008 10:49 am
Just the right time to post something like this…. ;-)
I love the “Last click” though it seems so unreal! - 49November 24th, 2008 11:35 am
great photos, like always! but i only see one person in ski in a photo. around here everyone skis and snowboards, we should see more of those sometime =D
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- 51November 24th, 2008 1:17 pm
I love this picture of an Glacier Sunrise. It’s my wallpaper since several months.
- 52November 24th, 2008 1:32 pm
Lolz… #30 is definetly one of the default Windows XP wallpapers. (‘Winter.jpg’ to be exact)
- 53November 24th, 2008 1:36 pm
Great list, Andrew. I have a feeling you’re not responsible for image #29…which is one of the four ’sample’ images that comes with the Windows XP operating system. You could always change the credits for that one from ‘Unknown’ to ‘Capt. Gates and the Winter Force’…. :-)
- 54November 24th, 2008 2:37 pm
You are losing your niche, don’t try to be something that you’re not.
- 55November 24th, 2008 4:11 pm
Truly amazing pics, Do you sell callanders!?.
- 56November 24th, 2008 9:04 pm
Amazing Photos!
- 57November 25th, 2008 4:21 am
What ever drugs you take when you go searching for the resources you present here please give me some :D This is hot chilling stuff :D Awesome work guys (and of course girls).
- 58November 25th, 2008 9:38 am
“what’s wrong with using photoshop? is part of digital photography, get over it, people.”
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Nothing wrong with using Photoshop, Mona…if you’re tweaking an original image. But taking someone else’s image and passing it off as your own is lame. But, I reckon you liked the cartoony “HDR” images also. More lameness. - 59
- 60November 25th, 2008 12:43 pm
I was hoping for an ice-climber!
- 61November 25th, 2008 8:30 pm
good
- 62November 27th, 2008 1:22 am
تصاویر بسیار زیبایی هستند
علیرضا - 63November 27th, 2008 2:21 am
Excellent pics!!! Very nice collection.smashing rocks.
very good - 64November 27th, 2008 3:17 am
Wonderful images..so cold.. :)
- 65November 27th, 2008 11:38 am
BEAUTIFUL!!! AMAZING!!!
I live in South America (Brazil) and I have never seen snow. - 66
- 67November 27th, 2008 7:06 pm
LOved the photos. thank you
- 68November 28th, 2008 12:32 am
wonderfull !!!
- 69November 28th, 2008 1:10 am
Thank U very much for yor interesting images.
- 70November 28th, 2008 9:55 pm
Great selection :DD! Some of them are so beautiful i could cry ;}..
- 71November 29th, 2008 3:54 am
very good tank .
- 72November 29th, 2008 1:36 pm
this is my God powre:)))
- 73November 30th, 2008 11:02 am
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
- 74December 4th, 2008 1:23 am
chala bagundi ….
- 75December 5th, 2008 7:55 am
Some of those snow laden tree shots look like infrared photos! Very cool.
- 76December 6th, 2008 10:18 am
hey,the photos are amazing!! sorry for language,I’m italian…..
ok…..bye!! - 77December 8th, 2008 1:40 pm
ene yu ve
- 78December 11th, 2008 8:49 am
Amazing! Fantastic.
- 79December 31st, 2008 12:56 am
Amassing, beautiful and lovely…. i want to be there in all of those pics.
Cant think that nature could be so pure and innocent.
- 80January 3rd, 2009 11:10 am
woooooooooow
I wish I were there - 81January 27th, 2009 12:20 pm
these pics are great and butiful
(: - 82February 2nd, 2009 4:04 am
Breath taking……….
Want to close my eyes for a second and reopen them & be surounded by these paradise nature…….xxx - 83February 19th, 2009 11:05 am
nice pics XD
- 84March 25th, 2009 7:34 am
Hi hi hi hi
- 85June 10th, 2009 3:49 pm
OH MY GOSH those are the most MAGNIFICENT photos i have ever seen
- 86August 14th, 2009 6:38 am
master piece
- 87December 16th, 2009 8:10 am
I can,t explain how nice these photos are!they just took me to my past memories
- 88December 17th, 2009 4:59 am
Wow…these are very butiful…..really nice and tanke you very much
- 89December 31st, 2009 4:21 am
the photos are amazing
- 90January 31st, 2010 10:01 am
Definitly some nice works of art here.
Very beautiful pictures. 5 out of 5 for sure
Thank-you
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number 19 (Av Clara Lidström) and 52 (Unknown) were taken on the same street, from the same point of view, with the same snowflakes falling… I’d bet 52 is original and 19 photoshopped :)