Bright lights, ice city

Harbin, China, glows every winter during the city’s ice lantern festival. Blocks of ice embedded with tinted lights are stacked to re-create landmarks such as English castles and Paris’ Arc de Triomphe. The result, says Camarillo reader Albert Huen, is a nighttime “fantasyland.” The retired medical physicist visited in December, when temperatures hit minus 30. Heat packs in his bag kept the camera battery from freezing.