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Sleeping dragon: Iceberg under cloud, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland

Iceberg under cloud, Kangerdlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland
Iceberg ribs under cloud, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland. This iceberg is calved from Kangerdlussuaq glacier, the largest glacier on the east cost of Greenland’s ice sheet and probably the world’s fastest moving glacier. Kangerdlugssuaq tripled its speed between 2004 and 2005, and is now rapidly moving mass out of the middle of Greenland’s ice sheet, in the form of icebergs. This has urgent implications for both the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet, and for the rate of sea level rise globally.
Taken from the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, during a 2009 expedition to investigate the effects of climate change in the Arctic.

Sleeping Dragon, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland. Limited edition Giclée Prints available – contact me for more details. This mage can be licensed via Millennium Images. Contact me for more details, or email mail@milim.com For prints, contact me, or click “add to cart” to some standard print options.

Iceberg under cloud, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland, originally uploaded by Dave Walsh Photography.

YES this is a colour image!
Iceberg under cloud, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland. Taken from the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise on 29 August 2009, during an expedition to investigate the effects of climate change in the Arctic.

Btw, the white streaks you can see behind the cloud and the ‘berg are actually streaks of snow on a mountain, on the side of the fjord. The images is not desaturated – I just underexposed the hell out of it.

So, it’s not a monochrome image. In fact, in Lightroom, the only controls I used were exposure, blacks, lights, darks, and shadows. No colour has been removed or added in the picture, I just shot it 1.6 underexposed in blinding daylight.

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Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.
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