This is one of my favorite photos from the Fire and Ice shoot yesterday. More of these shots are coming soon, but I want to take a break from uploading for a little while.

Thanks to my dad and Kendall for helping me out with this!

There were a number of static ice sculptures at locations around the city centre, this one outside a coffee shop. This particular sculpture was photographed on day two and had faired much better than some of the nearby pieces which proved to be in meltdown!

(For a more detailed caption, see the first image in this series).

In winter, this statue of Prometheus sits above a fountain and overlooks the ice skating rink. At Christmas time, a magnificent Christmas tree stands above the statue. Prometheus, a 1934 gilded cast bronze sculpture by Paul Manship, is located above the lower plaza at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. Manship chose to show Prometheus bringing fire to mortals. A torch waving in one hand, Prometheus is poised between heaven (symbolized by a cloud and a ring with signs of the zodiac) and earth (the mountains below). He is not looking warily upward for an angry Zeus, but down, at the humans on earth.

When a sculptor represents a figure as multi-faceted as Prometheus, he has a wide range of possible themes. According to Greek myth, Prometheus formed humans out of clay and water. He gave them sense and understanding, then taught them to work wood and make bricks, to build shelters, to use the stars to tell the seasons for planting, to write, to do math, to harness beasts of burden and to build ships. Prometheus also gave humans the gift of fire, smuggling it from Mount Olympus inside a hollow reed. But Zeus had forbidden anyone to give humans fire, and he ordered Prometheus to be chained to a rock in the distant Caucasus Mountains. Every day, an eagle came to rip out Prometheus’s liver. Every night his liver grew back, so the torture could begin anew.

An artwork with Prometheus as subject could show the importance of thinking, being creative, being independent. It could show the risks of rebellion or the nobility of suffering for the sake of others. It could show sparkling intelligence or intolerable, eternal agony.

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We see so many pictures of Eilean Donan Castle don't we - so I thought I'd try something a little different! My thanks to Adrian Sharratt for telling me about this technique. I think it's one of those 'love it or hate it' things - and I love it, so melodramatic! Hope you do too - Happy New Year & Enjoy All.

Echeveria 'Fire and Ice' en décoration estivale au Jardin exotique et botanique de Roscoff le 30/07/2012.

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Steelwool ... on ice

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A skier jumps through a flaming hoop as part of the "Fire & Ice" show.

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What better way to celebrate Christmas than going out with the family and lighting things on fire¿? This is Dad's turn - nice job Dad!

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"The natural layers of perpetual ice glisten blue-green in the reflected rays of sunlight. "

This fire and ice-themed mural by graffiti legends REVS and KAVES of Lordz of Brooklyn sits at the corner of Bridge Street and York Street, in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge. The mural is crowned by one of REVS's signature sculptures.

Zero is hand molded from sugar and appears to be flying around the cake!

Fire and Ice Show in Whistler BC.

Every Sunday evening, the WhistlerBlackcomb Ski and Snow Schools put on a big air show at the base of Whistler Mountain for visitors and locals alike. Each show crescendos with the addition of fire spinners, burning hoops and finally fireworks. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen one before!

Þingvellir - the site of the longest continuously standing parliament in the world, the Alþingi. It was a place I had to visit when in Iceland. It was fantastically beautiful, especially in the thick white winter blanket of snow. It is also the location where two tectonic plates meet, the Eurasian and North American plates. Be sure to stop by if you ever make it out to the land if Fire and Ice!