Sermeq Kujalleq glacier in Ilulissat, Greenland is the birthplace of most of the icebergs that make their way into the North Atlantic. It produces the most icebergs of any glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Some of these icebergs are 100 meters above the water line. Since that only represents 10% of the iceberg, they can be up to a kilometer deep. Most of the icebergs that calve from this glacier remain stuck on the moraine in the fjord until they melt enough to start moving. Once free, they drift north with the North Greenland Current, cross the Davis Strait, and then drift south on the Labrador Current into the Atlantic Ocean.
This photograph will look great on metal. If you prefer a paper print, I recommend that you include a mat and frame to avoid costly custom framing later on.
A single berg, isolated from the jam, and a chance to talk about what one of these actually is rather than what the whole fjord looks like.
Start with age. The ice at the bottom of the Greenland sheet fell as snow tens of thousands of years ago and has been under increasing pressure ever since, which drives out the trapped air and grows the ice crystals large. Some crystals in deep glacial ice reach the size of a fist. That is the ice that reads deep blue and rings rather than crunches.
Then size. The bergs coming out of this fjord are among the largest in the Northern Hemisphere; the tall ones stand a hundred metres above the waterline, which, at roughly a nine-to-one ratio below the surface, implies something approaching a kilometre of ice from top to keel on the biggest examples. Those are the ones that ground out on the sill and stay.
And then fate. Every one of them is going to the North Atlantic to melt, releasing its freshwater and dropping its cargo of ground-up Greenland onto the sea floor. The entire spectacle is a delivery system. Beautiful, and entirely transitional.
On printing this one: a single berg against open water is a portrait, and it hangs like one. It wants to be alone on a wall rather than part of a grouping. Metal suits the ice. If you prefer paper, pearl carries the translucency better than matte does.
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