A man drills a hole into the ice to fish in River Polui in the arctic city of Salekhard some 2000 km (1242 miles) northeast of Moscow November 25, 2007. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (RUSSIA)
In the Northern Emisphere winter has just finished and the spring is fastly taking its place. The best way to say goodbye to it is with a gallery of pictures from the 3 most important photo agencies (Reuters, AP, AFP/Getty images), whose subject is the "Ice" described in many different ways collecting pictures of this last winter. This gallery has been prepared by Daylife.
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Inuit seal hunter Dines Mikaelsen strokes a dead seal atop a melting iceberg near Ammassalik Island, Greenland in July 2007. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore said Thursday Dec. 13, 2007, the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference in Bali, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions. Gore urged delegates at the conference to take urgent action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
A ice designer works on one of her sculpture during the "Christmas symphony" ice sculpture contest, 09 December 2007 in St.Petersburg. AFP PHOTO/ELENA PALM (Photo credit should read ELENA PALM/AFP/Getty Images)
Trees are covered with ice from the freezing rain on a golf course in Kansas City, Kansas, December 11, 2007. Sleet and freezing rain blanketed much of central United States with a thick coating of ice on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people and knocking out power to nearly a million homes and businesses. REUTERS/Dave Kaup (UNITED STATES)
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany is seen on the ice during the Gala Exhibition at the NHK Trophy Figure Skating Grand Prix in Sendai, northern Japan, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
A woman looks at an ice sculpture 21 November 2007 on the opening day of the Ice Gallery, the first permanent ice sculpture museum in the world, in Naples. The Ice Gallery is 120 meter square, -7 degrees Celsuis and the sculputures weigh a total of 70 tonnes. AFP PHOTO/MARIO LAPORTA (Photo credit should read MARIO LAPORTA/AFP/Getty Images)
RNPS PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2007 - A fishing boat sails past a large iceberg at the mouth of the Jakobshavns ice fjord near Ilulissat in this photo taken May 15, 2007. Picture taken May 15, 2007. REUTERS/Bob Strong (GREENLAND)
Harun Bin Jalil from Malaysia carves an ice sculpture during Russia's first open cup for snow and ice sculpturing in the city of Salekhard, some 2000 km (1242 miles) north east of Moscow, November 22, 2007. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (RUSSIA)
A group of ducks rests on the ice on the Missouri River at Great Falls, Mont. on Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. (AP Photo/The Great Falls Tribune, Robin Loznak)
An ice encased tree branch is illuminated by holiday lights in Marysville, Pa., Thursday evening, Dec. 13, 2007. A wintry mix of precipitation fell Thursday across Pennsylvania as rain, sleet, ice or snow. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
A man breaks of a chunk of ice from an ice-wall with hanging stalactites near the Pyrenees Mountains in Roncal Valley, northern Spain, Sunday Dec. 16, 2007. Many parts of northern Spain are gripped with freezing cold weather. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
German ice sculpture artist Christian Funk, carves a polar bear out of 15 tons of ice near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, in Berlin December 7, 2007. According to Greenpeace, the ice sculpture is a memorial for climate protection. The sculpture is four meters high, four meters long and 1,5 meters wide. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele (GERMANY)
A snowman, complete with Barack Obama buttons for eyes, sits outside the Des Moines campaign headquarters of Democratic party presidential candidate Barack Obama, December 11, 2007. An ice and snow storm covered much of the midwest overnight, forcing some presidential candidates to cancel their campaign plans on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)
Ice coats campaign signs as bad weather persists in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. Both Democrat and Republican candidates will make their way to Des Moines over the next two days for presidential debates Wednesday and Thursday. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
A monkey licks block of ice with fruits and vegetables during the Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150km (94 miles) north of Bangkok, November 25, 2007. The annual festival provides various types of food and drink to the local monkey population, which numbers more than 2,000. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)
An 'ice' elf is seen with a catapult at the Ice Sculpture festival in Bruges, Belgium, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
Skiers walk towards Goryczkowy slope during heavy snow storm on Kasprowy Wierch in Tatra Mountains, southern Poland December 15, 2007. REUTERS/Peter Andrews (POLAND)
RNPS PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2007 - A worker uses his mobile phone after finishing a statue of Jesus Christ inside the first ice church built in Romania in Balea Lac, 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Bucharest, January 5, 2007.
REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel (ROMANIA)
Ice hangs from the trees in Lake St.Louis, Mo., Monday, Dec 10, 2007. Commuters contended with treacherous roads Monday from the southern Plains to the Northeast as a storm spread a coating of ice and freezing rain linked to at least 13 traffic deaths.(AP Photo/Dan Gill)
Snow clings to Steven Ellis of Des Moines, Iowa, as he clears snow and ice from a parking lot Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Visitors observ an ice sculpture 08 December 2007 on the first day of the Icesculpture Festival 2008 in Eindhoven. A team of Chinese icesculpture artists created with 300,000 kilogram ice and 400.000 kilogram snow the 7 World Wonders and some of the new chosen Wonders of the World. AFP PHOTO/ANP/ROBIN UTRECHT/Getty Images
People skate on the ice rink set up in Bryant Park, New York, December 15, 2007. REUTERS/Chip East (UNITED STATES)
Icicles form on a bush in Kansas City, Kansas, December 11, 2007. Sleet and freezing rain blanketed much of central United States with a thick coating of ice on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen people and knocking out power to nearly a million homes and businesses. REUTERS/Dave Kaup (UNITED STATES)
In this photo released by the Union Colony Fire Rescue Authority, a fire department diver whose name was not released rescues two dogs that broke through ice in a pond in Greeley, Colo. (AP Photo/Union Colony Fire Rescue Authority)
A while ago, I've published a similar gallery made up collecting last year's Reuters Pictures about Water. Click here to see it
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