![]() I look at my watch and I realize that I went too far with being in the water. I know that my time in the water is limited due to the cold, but I can’t stop searching new angles, different shapes and textures. He worn as about the imminent danger of being too close: a floating piece of ice, whether is a big iceberg or a bergy bit, can flip over in ten seconds and kill anybody who’s around it. ![]() Our zodiac driver, Edwin, becomes a bit anxious when me and Jenny come too close to unstable icebergs. I can easily get caught in between two growlers or bergy bits, tons of ice that could crush me like a beer can. Focusing on my work, I get lost in such beauty, slowly drifting away from the sight of my guardian on the zodiac. We are small floating spots in a dark sea, easily hidden by mass of ice. Getting lost in this infinite space between moving pieces of floating ice, icebergs and bergy bits it’s easy. The driver of my zodiac is always keeping an eye on me and the other photographer Jennifer Hayes. I repeat to myself: do the best you can, get the best out of it…focus, shoot…clean the glass dome…focus, shoot again. I just float in the uncomfortable inflated dry suit, but I could cry for the happiness of being so lucky to experience all of that, to see live what just a few people could see. My feet are already frozen after a few minutes. Holding the camera half to the surface (to make split shots) while getting the composition, is making my wrists and neck stiffer and painful. I would like to scout for hours that perfect ice-shape, but time runs fast, and my hands are already getting numb and only holding the bulky underwater camera and pressing the shutter button with the thick mittens on, is a real challenge. I feel excited but lost within this natural beauty. I’m so intrigued by the fact that each iceberg’s shape, tell its story and its journey through the time and space. They trap the past in form of ancient gases and other elements in their ice. Icebergs are natural sculptures carved and shaped by time and elements. I’m in the water at -1,8 C degrees roaming between small icebergs, bergy-bits and growlers, this is how the icebergs are classified by size, looking for inspirational shots. It’s a cloudy chilly February afternoon in Antarctica. When icebergs break off, the process is known as calving. Pieces of ice naturally break off and float away – these are icebergs. If the ice reaches the sea, it often continues to extend as a floating ice shelves or ice tongues. Ice on land flows towards the ocean as glaciers and ice sheets. Floating pieces of ice smaller than this are termed “bergy bits”, or smaller again, “growlers”. To be an iceberg, the height of the ice must be greater than 5 m (16 ft) above sea level and the thickness must be greater than 30 m (100 ft) and the ice must cover an area of at least 500 square m (5400 sq ft). The Bummock is the downward projection from the underside of an iceberg the Hummock is the topside part.Īll photos of this photographic work were taken while diving or snorkeling in the water during a climate change expedition with the Aurora Expeditions and Ocean Geographic in February 2023 around the Antarctic Peninsula.Īn iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice is floating freely in open (salt) water. In the case of icebergs, a split shot shows the Bummock and the Hummock. ![]() What lies underwater is often a mystery to many viewers. They showcase an interesting perspective of two scenes within an image, telling a story above and below the water level. Over-under photos are irrefutably eye-catching. Only the 10% of an iceberg is what we see out of the water, the 90% is below the surface, hence the phrase “only the tip of an iceberg”. Ungainly and random fragments of a single mother. Once they were one, then they became two, then many. They bear the trace of the wound of detachment. Icebergs between sea & sky: Bummock and Hummock
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