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These Beautiful Waterfalls Are Made Entirely Of Ice

Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson — two veteran National Geographic photographers who have been married for 28 years — have captured this beautifully surreal image of waterfalls fully made of ice. I guess that those ice caps are really melting.

Cotton and Sisse — also known as Keenpress — just came back from the Artic and gave us permission to reproduce these beautiful images. You can see the rest of their wonderful photos in National Geographic and their [Flickr Photostream]

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    EckyThump

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 8:36 AM

    Beautiful,.. but are they a normal annual occurrence, or are the a consequence of global warming?

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      TSH

      Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 11:11 AM

      Warming is a normal annual occurrence… it’s called Summer :–P

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        EckyThump

        Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM

        Erm.. Ok?

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        Stefan

        Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 4:33 PM

        He means the enhanced green house effect

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    The Pedant

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    ArCtic. You crazy North Americans might think that c in the middle is silent, but the rest of the world pronounce the word properly.

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      Scott

      Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 10:10 AM

      Attic, Jesus meant they just came back down from the attic.
      Your welcome

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        InformedGamer

        Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM

        *You’re

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          Scott

          Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3:20 PM

          Thanks,
          Another example of why I need a secretary to take down my Giz blog posts

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    nicky

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    +1…one of my pet hates

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    case

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 2:53 PM

    “waterfalls fully made of ice”

    I think you’ll find they are fully made of water, if they were made of ice (which is made of water btw) then they wouldn’t be falling anywhere. They would just be ice.

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    kem

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Unless those are also ice droplets miraculously suspended in mid-air, and the sea has coincidentally frozen in the exact shape of having a waterfall pouring into it, then those are liquid waterfalls, not frozen ones. I’ve seen frozen waterfalls and they look nothing like that.

    Having waterfalls flowing off the edge of an ice sheet is pretty amazing, but don’t try to say that they’re made of ice when they’re not.

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    Scott

    Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    Play nice

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