Photography
#ice #Jan Erik Waider #mountains #snow #trees
Dramatic Ice Formations Mimic Unearthly Creatures Frozen in the Harz Mountains
All images © Jan Erik Waider, shared with permission
Hamburg-based landscape photographer Jan Erik Waider (previously) climbed the Harz Mountains in northern Germany last week in search of the otherworldly figures inhabiting its highest peak. A thick coating of ice transformed the evergreens and other vegetation at Brocken, the summit at an elevation of 3,743 feet, into towering beasts and monster-like characters that appear to wander the frozen tundra. “I like the muted sounds and the seemingly endless variations of gray that come with fog,” he tells Colossal. “I can wander for hours as the winter landscape changes and recomposes itself almost every minute.” Pick up a print of Waider’s Mountain Creatures and see the rest of the series on Behance. You also might enjoy these fantastical menaces.
#ice #Jan Erik Waider #mountains #snow #trees
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