National Geographic’s Top 20 Photos Of 2015

https://www.instagram.com/p/_xOKPbNcY6/ I did a quick watercolor with your photo as reference, see it in the link ☺ also, I love the photo

Nice

This is one of the reasons why i love bored panda! awesome people comes here! =) And you are part of that awesome people!

this is one of the reasons why i love bored panda! awesome people comes here!

So happy for Cezary for his work's notoriety!

It's an awesome shot! You're extremely talented.

How long did you have to wait to get the shot? It's gorgeous.

your pic number 1 - that really amazing to see I do like it

Hate mouses but this one looks very sweet.

Jó itt látni egy magyart! :)

I would love to be there right now!

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Azt hiszem hogy Tatán van.

"A photographer has captured spectacular cracks hundreds of yards long in the ice of the world's largest freshwater lake. The stunning pictures of Lake Baikal in Siberia were taken by Alexey Trofimov, who described what he saw as 'magical' and 'supernatural'. The 44-year-old from Bratsk in Russia stayed in a cabin on Olkhon Island- the fourth-largest lake-bound island in the world - while on his trip. Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume and is also said to be the world's oldest and deepest. Mr Trofimov said: 'Lake Baikal has magical properties. When I saw these cracks I absolutely fell in love with them and will never forget them. 'Cracks such as these don't seem real and seeing it was like seeing something supernatural.' 'Ice has the capability to rapidly change depending on what temperature it is. When it is heated it is compressed, when it is cold it is expanding - that's how the cracks form.'" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-30190

Ice crack

Brrrrr!

Ice that's over Lake Baikal is cracking :)

The ice has just cracked.

Hummm Lake Baikal is in Russia, so it usually gets frozen... It seems that the ice is melting and the water is flowing inside that ice crack ... It's quite beautiful :)

I think the water is frozen and it cracked..

i think the water is frozen and it cracked..

a natural crack has formed and it creates a fantastic image. Full of meanings and metaphors for me as well as beautiful colours, lighting and stunningly simple direct composition.

The frozen lake is cracking.

Such a huge expanse of clear ice (no snow). Beautiful.

Same question

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/frozen-lake-ice-crack/

I was curious too. There are interesting images of the lake online of the lake when frozen and thawed.

It looks like this is probably a reef or a shelf of some sort and there's a crack in it, causing kind of a mini waterfall effect there the water is flowing down thru it. I'm not sure tho! Pretty mesmerizing, regardless.

Pressure crack in the ice or the beginning of ice break up

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3019080/That-s-cracking-picture-Photographer-captures-incredible-splits-hundreds-yards-long-ice-world-s-largest-freshwater-lake.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3019080/That-s-cracking-picture-Photographer-captures-incredible-splits-hundreds-yards-long-ice-world-s-largest-freshwater-lake.html

Actually, the crack is because the ice is contracting, not expanding. Water has peculiar properties in that regard. Most liquids and solids expand when temperature increases and contract when temperature is reduced. Water, on the other hand, reverses this within the temperature frame of -4°C to +4C. This is the reason that ice floats (water turns to ice at 0°C). When it cools below -4 it starts contracting again and when a large lake cools below -10°C it starts cracking like that, simply because it contracts and something's got to give.

Cracks appear as soon as fresh water freezes in the beginn of the winter,in the spring ice start making very peculiar sound in the evening when temp is below zero and in the daytime above zero,fairly,then sounds and cracks are majestetic as we see here in Majestetic Lake baikal,where flexible ice make great collaboration with water.water expands when its freeze,, just try it with glass.greetings from freezed lake and happy new year 2016 Rena!

No, but I bet it's REAL

me too!

What are they called?

Absolutely stunning photo!

I am from South Africa and the Baobab is my totem tree. I love them so much.

baobab trees

What trees are they?