Ice World

[intrepidphotos]

"The ice is near, the solitude tremendous - but how calmly all things lie in the light! How freely one breathes! How much one feels beneath oneself! " Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888

There is always something surreal about ice landscapes. Your brain tries to make sense of them, but the repetitive uniformity and endlessness defy logic. After a while it seems like your staring into a giant fractal; a truly humbling experience. At its terminus the Perito Moreno Glacier has an average thickness of 170m (558ft); the contorted ripples on the surface are between 30 and 60 m (98 and 195 ft) high. The climbers in the first shot help provide some scale. The glacier makes up a tiny fraction of the Southern Patagonian Icefield which with a total area of 12,363 km2 (4,773 sq mi) of ice is the third largest body of fresh water in the world (after the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets). As the planet continues to warm up, the ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate and has retreated over 10km since Nietzsche wrote those words in his final book Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is.

The shot below is of a large section of ice that was under stress, and fracturing, from nearby part of the glacier not far from here. The extreme brightness of the ice, capable of causing snow blindness in a short period of time, has silhouetted out the sky. Argentine Patagonia, Argentina

Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography

_{All images in this post were taken by and remain the Copyright of Robert Downie - http://www.robertdowniephotography.com}

Comments

[katherinalive]

Thank you for such an interesting information, and such interesting photos :)

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[ali14]

love this

[steemshiro]

There is nothing beautiful than nature

[steemapple]

Magical. Great photo. Surreal indeed. Even the photo can stir such emotion. What more in real life. Thanks for posting.

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[eight-rad]

beautiful but slippy i guess

[programmingvalue]

that is absolutely gorgeous and exotic

[intrepidphotos]

Thank you

[roadtrips]

Absolutely stunning pictures! Is the acces to the glacier easy (like a trail in an national park) or do you have to climb to get there?

[intrepidphotos]

You need some equipment like ice axe and crampons. You can bring your own or you can go with a tour. It is easy to get to the edge of the glacier; walking on it not as easy as you might think and quite dangerous unless you know what your doing.

[jesusvieira]

Very interesting information, also the image of the glacier is impressive and very nice. in short words I can say that it is surprising

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks !

[arianpet]

Beautiful scenery

[mizan0]

stunning

[bornprince]

This is Wooow!

[intrepidphotos]

Thank you

[jcphotography]

Wow wow wow

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[abixy]

Magical photos of ice world

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[abixy]

You Welcome

[osef-navi]

In addition to the impressive landscape of a glacier, it is terrible what its disappearance implies for the human race ... and due to our own fault, perhaps destiny!?.

[intrepidphotos]

Yes it is sad to see. Time will tell where things go from here !

[cnaranha]

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[johnlloydgildo]

The world warming up is man made. We can never stop what we are doing now, we can never halt all power plants or we can' t stop pumping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Time will come when these glaciers will all melt, but mother earth will sure change on global scale to balance all this things.

[intrepidphotos]

There are lots of alternatives to what we are doing now. We just have to shift to them.

[johnlloydgildo]

but were timid and unable to do it

[rakibmaruf24]

Great post with a great photo . Thanks for posting about Ice world .

[izge]

"The ice is near, the solitude tremendous - but how calmly all things lie in the light! How freely one breathes! How much one feels beneath oneself!"

I love that a lot. It was smooth reading it.
Your content is quite enjoyable. Ice!!!!!!! Well i only see that in my fridge when power stays long enough for ice to form in the freezer. 🙊

Thanks for sharing.

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks.

[sinisterfoxcloud]

It's mesmerizing to look at any surreal scenery that the Earth has.

On the second picture, not sure if it's just me but it looks like there are hands reaching out.

[intrepidphotos]

I can see them now you mention it !

[gabrielatravels]

Just..WOW!! Breathtaking..

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks. Hope your well !

[guanipa75]

Good job, greetings!

[greddyforce]

It would be a great experience to hike there. Snowblindness would not be that great :D

[intrepidphotos]

They have sun glasses for that !

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[kieranstone]

It always looks like another planet.
I thought those people were penguins at first...

[intrepidphotos]

Just some people in penguin suits !

[polaraddict]

Nice work. Love you included people, it gives a sense of scale

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks. The people do help with the scale thats for sure.

[gradzio]

nice photo !!!

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

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[intrepidphotos]

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_{Thank @fireawaymarmot for this great gif!}

[artizm]

charming!

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[denellenicole]

Stunning!

[intrepidphotos]

Cheers.

[strayboy]

Wonderful landscape!!

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[fotosdenada]

Nice photos, especially the second one. Did you use a red light filter for that one, or was there that much contrast naturally? It looks like jagged teeth.

¡Quite lo pases genial allí en Argentina!

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks. I did not use any filters for the shots. There was just a lot of natural contrast. If you reduce the exposure levels by spot metering on the ice itself you can bring out the colour (and blacken the sky)

[fotosdenada]

Very cool! It sort of looks like one of those artist's renditions of an exoplanet.

[shollstun]

The Ice looks magical

[intrepidphotos]

It is quite something.

[arcange]

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[ali.asadi]

wooooow
amazing

[photovitamin]

just....wow !

[ibrahimwaraich]

just amazing

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[astrophoto.kevin]

WOW... Absolutely breathtaking. The ice looks so surreal, really excellent photos.
I hope to see more in future...
Great, just great 😊

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks mate ! Appreciate your kind words. It's a speical part of the world down there in Patagonia.

[astrophoto.kevin]

You're welcome 😊
Really special... Like it‘s out of this world or part of a fictional world.

[remzie]

beautiful perspective in taking the picture, amazing shot of forbidden nature.,

[intrepidphotos]

Thank you

[ggeraldooso]

A girl recently showed me a picture of a glacier from beyond Patagonia, Argentina and it impressed me so much that I started to investigate it, it is shocking that nature's character and really admirable. I would like to see some day with my own eyes a glacial of great magnitude. You have my upvote, salute.

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks. You should try and see it at least once in your life.

[vedacarolina]

Beautiful, hermoso, magical, que fotos tan preciosas... thanks

[christoph30]

That main picture is amazing. There's definitely something out of this world about ice landscapes. Good post.

[shirleyhenderson]

This ice images take us to another world, so beautiful.

[kapsas]

i like the picture man

[dilan91]

Awesome work great job.You've got a lot of work for this.

[josephbuarao]

thank you for that formative article and great images.

[vigyual]

The shots are amazing

[manduto]

Greetings friends, great post. very nice the words here published and the extraordinary images, who was going to think that the man would arrive beyond his magination ...

[alchemistry]

Hello good night! I love everything you write, and I know that thanks to your talent you will follow the successes and you will have the best rewards thanks to that! Congratulations

[intrepidphotos]

Thanks

[skeletonboneless]

Amazing! <3

[jiren]

those ice are amazing work of nature