Alone Amongst the Frozen Giants
What's up everyone! Hope you guys are all doing well and getting prepared for summer.....my least favorite time of the year๐ค Before I continue with my commentary, I want to thank EVERYONE that sent me birthday wishes yesterday! I greatly appreciate it! Thank you so much! The timing of my latest set of images from my travels to Antartica seems timely. Today I am releasing the entire collection of images from Antartica. I don't even know where to begin, or even how to describe my visit to the bottom of the world....literally. Antarctica felt like another world. The continent is remote, raw, and impossibly still. The landscape was quiet and lonely, yet alive. To be honest, it was kinda creepy, but so beautiful. From the moment I first laid eyes on the outer islands of Antartica, I was struck by the feeling that I was trespassing in some sacred, secret place. Antartica is a frozen desert that is completely covered in snow and ice. The landscape is monochromatic completely void of trees and vegetation. There were mountains and jagged peaks in every direction. The glaciers and mountains seem to jet out from the sea and rise to thousands of feet into the air. The glaciers spilled down the sides of the mountains as if they were moving in slow motion. I was in absolute awe of the sheer scale of it all. Icebergs.... some as tall as skyscrapers would drift past our ship like a silent floating fortresses. Each one seemed to carry a story, carved by wind and time. Antartica was full of texture. The ice, the mountains, the icebergs.....TEXTURE MADNESS! In one direction, the ice was smooth as glass, naturally polished by design, in the other, the ice would be fractured and jagged that resembled shattered crystal. Even in stillness, the landscape seemed to shift and breathe. The atmosphere felt otherworldly and surreal. To put it simply the light just hits different that far south! Above the landscape, the skies were dramatic and moody. Even on days that were somewhat sunny, the light would have this silvery tone to it, which was still nice to photograph in, but had a certain type of luminance that was different than any place I had visited. WOW! Visiting and photographing the continent of Antartica stirred something in me I didnโt expect. I felt small, but not insignificant. I felt a kind of quiet reverence, like I was witnessing something eternal. It reminded me how vast the world is, how powerful and patient nature can be, and how rare it is to feel truly present.
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