Photopost: Ice sculptures, Jelgava 2013

Jelgavas ledus skulptūru festivāls 2013 / Фестиваль ледяных скульптур в Елгаве 2013

Hi! :)

It's a tradition already to write here about ice sculptures every year in February (you can see photos from 2011 and 2012 in my blog). On Saturday I was in Jelgava to see them again. This year the weather was bad, as it was quite warm and cloudy. And almost all sculptures had little white roofs above them, so I don't like my photos this year. But well, sculptures are beautiful and you must see them ^^
This years theme of a festival was Planet Ice.

Girl on the Moon / The wise men possess the highest heights! (sculpture from SEB Life Insurance)

Authors: Sergej Tcelebrovskii & Andrei Molokov (Russia) / Author: Kārlis Īle (Latvia)

1st place in team sculpture category

Ice-flower

Author: Vadim Polin (Russia)

Sympathy award

Black and white / Flying above the waves

Author: Donatas Mockus (Lithuania) / Author: Alexey Verbitskiy (Russia)

1st place in individual sculpture category / 2nd place in individual sculpture category

Photo sculpture

Authors: Inese Valtere - Ūlande (Latvia) & Donatas Mockus (Lithuania)

Queen of Ice Kingdom / Last hope (hoping to find a cold, penguins visited Jelgava ^^)

Author: Sergei Tcelebrovskii (Russia) / Authors: Agnese Rudzīte - Kirillova & Maija Puncule (Latvia)

Solar rings

Author: Mathew Thomas Foster (Great Britain)

3rd place in individual sculpture category

Planet "X"

Authors: Mathew Chaloner & Mathew Thomas Foster (Great Britain)

This sculpture fell down about a minute after I took the second photo :( It was too warm this time.

The Gods of ice

Authors: Ruslan Korovkov (Bulgaria) & Irina Taflevskaya (Ukraine)

Frozen howl

Authors: Vytautas Musteikis & Kestutis Musteikis (Lithuania)

2nd place in team sculpture category

Touch the Sun

Authors: Kārlis Īle (Latvia) & Vilius Matutis (Lithuania)

3rd place in team sculpture category

Ice-flowers / ICEdora

Author: Kārlis Īle (Latvia) / Authors: Ivan Loktyukhin & Vadim Polin (Russia)

"Sportland" favourite

Day and night - time off!

Authors: Marina Erkovich & Elena Subbotina (Russia)

Photo sculpture

Author: Ainars Zingniks (Latvia)

They know that I love penguins ^___^

Koskenkorva ice bar

Authors: Inese Valtere - Ūlande, Kristaps Krolls, Aleksejs Geiko (Latvia) & Donatas Mockus (Lithuania)

Escaping monotony / The little Prince

Author: Mathew Chaloner (Great Britain) / Author: Inese Valtere - Ūlande (Latvia)

Mythical ice angel landing on the ice planet (a saviour of a new age)

Author: Darren Jackson (Great Britain)

Ice reflection / Escaping the captivity of permafrost

Author: Kestutis Musteikis (Lithuania) / Author: Dzhulustan Markov (Russia)

Where the snowflakes come from?

Author: Elena Subbotina (Russia)

Photo sculpture / I am not here

Author: Kārlis Īle (Latvia) / Author: Krists Zariņš (Latvia)

Torre

Authors: Eric Mutel (France) & Franziska Agrawal (Germany)

Below-ice fishing

Author: Maija Puncule (Latvia)

What do you think about this year's sculptures?

And have a nice day everyone! ^^