Glacier Ice

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Glacier Ice


Ice refracts (bends) light as it passes through it, by some special magic physics stuff, this is why it looks blue if it doesn't look white, the other colours are hidden by the ice pixies. This particular bit of ice had the deep blue colours keep popping out from where the ice pixies hid them and so they moved around as I moved my eyes and camera around which I took great delight in doing.





Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise to the High Arctic in high summer, from Resolute Bay, Canada to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.