One Icelandic beach of black sand hosts partly melted icebergs that ride there on the Atlantic waves from a nearly freshwater glacial lagoon. The ice, calved off a tongue of the island’s largest glacier, floats about the lake (Jokulsarlon) before melting just enough to fit over the bottom of an outlet channel and float to the sea. Here is such an ice chunk in twilight, amidst a brief time exposure of shallow surf, rendering a scene both ghostly and crystalline in character.
7 SW Reynivellir, Iceland (Looking S)
64.0396, -16.1846Cold Wash Cycle
One Icelandic beach of black sand hosts partly melted icebergs that ride there on the Atlantic waves from a nearly freshwater glacial lagoon. The ice, calved off a tongue of the island’s largest glacier, floats about the lake (Jokulsarlon) before melting just enough to fit over the bottom of an outlet channel and float to the sea. Here is such an ice chunk in twilight, amidst a brief time exposure of shallow surf, rendering a scene both ghostly and crystalline in character.
7 SW Reynivellir, Iceland (Looking S)
64.0396, -16.1846