On the earth fire and ice are always parallel. Fire can be useful for human life, but it can also be the most destructive force. The ice belongs to the natural, cold and seemingly lifeless world.
Here are the best pictures of fire and ice:
People enjoy the late afternoon by walking on the frozen lake in Menteith, Scotland.
Tungurahua volcano in Cotalo, Ecuador launched lava and ash on January 11, 2010.
A ship is passing through the ice on the Hudson River near Kingston, New York.
The ferocious fire burned a forest in Valparaiso city, 121 km northwest of Santiago, Chile. More than 1,200 hectares of land near Valparaiso were burned but no one died or injured.
Buses were trapped in ice and snow in a valley in Omaha, Nebraska on the outskirts of Elkhorn, where a fire was extinguished.
Lava flows from cracks down Nyamulagira volcano in North Kivu, Congo.
Some Reschen Lake walkers froze next to the old church tower of Graun village in South Tyrol in northern Italy. This village was destroyed and the valley was flooded in 1950 when people stopped the Etsch River to produce electricity.
Small fires on the hillside in Pottenstein town in southern Germany on January 6, 2010. This is part of an annual traditional festival held to ward off evil of the old year.
Frozen frosts cling to the branches as the sun rises in the field in Knutsfod, England.
A house on Richhill Road in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, engulfed in fire. The investigator confirmed that two children died in the fire and a woman and two other children jumped out from the roof.
A field in Dewar Nurseries of Apopka, Florida is covered in ice when frost continues to take place in the state of Florida, USA.
Crowds gather at the annual Christmas tree burning festival at Dead Horse Beach, Salem Willows Park in Salem, Massachusetts. An estimated 2,500 trees are collected for burning.
