Pond in Switzerland | Image: imgur.com
The beauty of these frozen wonderlands is as gripping as it is accessible. When we look out over a watery landscape, it's beautiful but essentially intangible. One may hold it for a split second before it slips through their fingers. Temperatures below freezing not only lend the water shape and color variation, but it becomes an allure of substance that a person can hold, or that can hold a person suspended above it.
These exquisite landscapes shots are part of a user submitted post of icy scenery; see all of the photos in the collection here.
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