This picture was taken on a recent trip to Argentina, and shows the side face of the Perito Moreno Glacier. We were just finishing the ice-trek at this point so we had a few moments to look around…
The picture was taken in extremely bright light with the sun shining through some of the more dense cloud cover in the background. I then underexposed the photo slightly, and drained some of the more distracting colour (leaving as much as the blue as possible). It is also taken with a tilt-shift lens (the 45mm ts-e lens).
The average height of the glacier at the end is about 240ft above sea level, and it is also one of the glaciers that is still advancing – to the tune of nearly 2m per day. Huge chunks of ice regularly smash down into the sea from the front face as it advances – it’s hard to believe how loud the ice breaks really are.
Canon EOS-5D Mark II
1/6400 sec at f/2.8
ISO 100
45mm
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