Monday 7 July 2008

Tabular icebergs and sea ice

Tabular Iceberg


Very moody photo that was taken as our boat was entering the Drake Passage on the return to Ushuaia; the southern most city in the world on the tip of South America. It's a two day crossing at this point and can be pretty uncomfortable as this is the Southern Ocean.

These tabular icebergs are formed when ice fractures off an iceshelf and floats away and can be immense. The sea ice around the icebergs are formed when smaller icebergs calve off the larger one, the shockwave from the ice falling into the sea pushes smaller ice fragments out into a ring.

I like this from the stormy feel of the clouds.

24mm ISO 200 1/40 f/14

Just joined redbubble and some of my antarctica landscapes are there feedback welcome on my images!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

amaaazing! 0-0