#winter

#winter

The 2025 Minimalist Photography Awards Landscape winners prove that in a noisy world, simplicity can strike the deepest chord. These photographs rely on quiet power rather than spectacle, reducing scenes to pure elements of space, light, and emotion. Martin Rak claimed 1st Place with Art of Winter, a serene Czech landscape capturing the hush of the season's first snowfall, while Kalle Saarikko's 2nd Place Whirl and Alexandre Brisson's 3rd Place infrared Dreamscape of Etosha showed how abstraction and surreal color can reshape our sense of place.

Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum noted that the child's death comes as basic protections in Gaza have been systematically dismantled due to Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in the territory. Families are living in tents on wet ground without heating, electricity or sufficient clothing, Abu Azzoum said. When food, fuel, shelter and aid are banned, cold absolutely becomes lethal.

Well, you actually don't have to spend a load of cash - or any at all - to keep the young'uns active and occupied. There are a ton of ways to do with kids in New York for free that'll wear them out enough to conk out when you get back to your hotel room - and buy you an hour or two to work in a tipple at the bar, finally.

There is just a beautiful layer of snow on the ground deep in the woods. And it is still and cold. I'm starting early, climbing a mountain called Wright Peak. That means moving through near darkness in the hour before sunrise. There's just enough light in the woods. I can see, but there's no color. It's just like I'm walking through this black and white world of snow and charcoal lines of the hemlock trees, the boughs already really heavy with snow.