structures & shapes

Category: Ice

  • Glaciers of Patagonia – blue, white, turquoise

    Glaciers of Patagonia – blue, white, turquoise

    One may think all glaciers look the same. These four shots proof the opposite!

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  • Green Ice

    Green Ice

    Here is a new addition to my ice series: The Marmolada glacier. As all the snow melted away one can see the blank glacier ice with its typical green to blue color. The Marmolada is a mountain range in the Dolomites (Italy).  Its highest peak is called Punta Penia (3’343 m), the highest mountain of…

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  • Diamonds from Iceland

    The “Diamond Beach” at the glacier lagoon Jökulsarlon in the south of Iceland is the perfect spot to look for the Icelandic version of diamonds! Clear ice fresh from the glacier washed up on a black lava sand beach!

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  • Black Diamond Ice Cave

    The Black Diamond ice cave is located at the Breidamerkurjökull in Iceland. Due to ash encapsulated in the ice the cave looks black. But when the sunlight shines right into the cave (e.g. early February at around 10 am) it lights up in golden and blue.

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  • Blue Magic

    Iceland in winter is blue magic! Here I’m sharing shots from two glaciers in the south of Iceland. They carry blue ice! It’s blue because the compression in the glacier squeezed out any air bubbles and in this circumstance light of long wavelength like red, orange and yellow is absorbed by the ice while light…

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  • Icy Times

    The Giessen waterfall is located in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. This winter it froze.

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