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For visitors to Antarctica, one of the most lasting impressions is of the blue ice. Whether seen in the huge flat-topped tabular bergs, or in the small sculpted floes, this intense color has a hypnotic effect: you just cannot look away. The purity of the color, combined with the purity of the locale, transfixes even the most world-weary traveler. After being sated with the color itself, the visitor next becomes aware of the detail, the exquisite shape and form of the ice. As a photographer, Antarctica is an endless feast of images. I find myself taking frame after frame of the blue ice. Even though Ive been lucky enough to have traveled to this southern continent on a number of trips, Im still as unabashedly thrilled as the newcomer. On the following pages are some of my favorite blue ice images.
Cover photo: Iceberg with a small group of chinstrap penguins, near the South Orkney Islands.
A tilted berg in the pack ice, Erebus and Terror Gulf, near James Ross Island, in the Weddell Sea side of the Peninsula.
Along the edge of the pack ice, in Erebus and Terror Gulf, near James Ross Island, in the Weddell Sea side of the Peninsula.
Late day storm light and pack ice in Erebus and Terror Gulf, near James Ross Island, in the Weddell Sea side of the Peninsula.
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Rocks, from bergs grounding and rolling, frozen into eroded ice, Cuverville.
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Icicles curtain a grounded iceberg near Vega Island, Erebus and Terror Gulf.
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Eroded by waves and weather, fantastic shapes emerge from the ice, Neko Harbor.
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A huge blue berg, caught in the pack ice, Erebus and Terror Gulf, near James Ross Island, in the Weddell Sea side of the Peninsula.
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At twilight: icebergs calved from tidewater glaciers below lenticular clouds, Gerlache Strait.
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Along the edge of the pack ice, in Erebus and Terror Gulf, near James Ross Island, in the Weddell Sea side of the Peninsula.
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Tabular icebergs in late light, in the open ocean of the Scotia Sea.
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PHOTOGRAPHY NOTES
These photos are a just a few of the ice photos Ive taken on my more recent Antarctic trips. My first few visits were in the film days, but all of these images started as digital RAW files. A variety of Nikon camera bodies were used: D2x, D3, D3s, and D3x. Nikon lenses include 16-35mm, 24-70mm, 24-120mm, 70-200mm, 70-300, and even the 200-400mm. ISO settings ranged from 100 to 1600. While a few images were taken with a tripod-mounted camera, most were done handheld from zodiacs.
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BLUE ICE
Photographs and text 2013 John Shaw. All the images in this eBook are available as fine-art archival prints, printed personally by John. Contact John through his website, www.johnshawphoto.com, for information on sizes and prices.
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