Misty winter scenes

Here’s a selection of our favourite mysterious, misty winter scenes from our photo archive.

Hochkar ski resort near Goestling an der Ybbs, Mostviertel, Must Quarter, Austria (Robert Harding/Martin Siepmann)

Wafts of mist and alpine hut in the snow, Alpe di Siusi, South Tyrol, Italy (Robert Harding/Helmuth Rier)

Lake Windermere in the Lake District at sunrise, Cumbria, England (Robert Harding/Ashley Cooper)

Early morning mist over Lake Schluchsee in winter, Hochschwarzwald, Upper Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (Robert Harding/Karl F. Schofmann)

Fallow deer does and buck (Robert Harding/E.A. Janes)

Jetty at Buchscharner Seewirt Inn at Lake Starnberg near Muensing, Bavaria, Germany (Robert Harding/Hans Lippert)

Whooper swans, Hokkaido, Japan (Robert Harding/Art Wolfe)

Lake Bled at dawn in winter with Assumption of Mary’s Pilgrimage Church, Slovenia (Robert Harding/Guy Edwardes)

Snowy fir forest in mist sunrise (Robert Harding/Patrick Frischknecht/Okapia)

Lonely hiker walking above a sea of fog on Faehnerenspitze mountain in the Appenzell region, Switzerland (Robert Harding/Stefan Arendt)

Rock goat (Capra ibex), Alps (Robert Harding/Henry Ausloos)

Gondolas in the fog, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy (Robert Harding/Christophe Boisvieux)

See more images of winter mist here