Arno Balzarini/Keystone/Associated Press
In Seattle, we’re enjoying some pretty balmy weather (for February). But I’m headed to Europe this week and I’m well aware that hundreds of thousands of people are suffering through a bone-chilling freeze–with temperatures dropping waaaay below normal. Amid mountains of snow and icicles as long as my arm, people are panicking and trying to help each other.
And some people are photographing.
I’ve shot in temps so cold that my film (yes film!) snapped and cracked when my camera would attempt to wind it… Seems like Eastern Europe is in that sort of mode right now. Times of great suffering and pain are also often times when some of the most touching, haunting, and remarkable art is made. Click thru this handful of frozen images via Ukraine, Serbia, Bulgaria and beyond by clicking thru the gallery tabs above. Just scratched the surface grabbing these off news services, etc. But if anyone has/knows other deep freeze images – particularly arty ones- please share a link below. Love to see them.
UK is Freezing dot com!!!
wanna go out and shoot, last the i wanna do is fall over and break… a lens.. bones can heal, cameras cant. lol.
chase you ‘poping’ by england by any chance?… 😀 or is it paris?.
Sorry, the link is http://www.semkee.blogspot.com/2012/01/19c-and-getting-lower.html. Brain freeze. :/
He Chase!
Drop me a line if you pass thru Amsterdam on your way back. Would love to meet and hang with you!
Great shot btw!
Grtz!
It has been from -13c to -30c for the past two weeks now in Ukraine! Here is a link to a photo took of the ice on the inside of my flat’s window. http://Www.semkee.blogspot.com/2012/01/-19c-and-getting-lower.html. I am reluctant to take my camera outside as I don’t want to damage it!
That’s a beautiful collection of images. We have -25F wind chills here in Minnesota this morning, but frustratingly enough there isn’t any snow or ice. Brown grass and sunshine doesn’t have the same visual impact.