The hard angular shapes and edges of this berg
remind me of a cubist painting. Notice that the area at
sea-level towards the left is very smooth and curved by contrast to
the rest of the ice. The sharp geometric edges will probably have
been made when this piece of ice calved from its glacier, the
fracture planes of the ice being usually straight and plate-like.
That it is not yet smoothed out indicates that this region has not
yet been under the water to be sculptured into the more usual curves
seen on ice bergs, it also means that it only recently fell off the
glacier, although it could well be a fracture plane from the
collapse of a larger ice berg that broke into pieces.
Paul Ward - Pentax equipment, 50mm
lens, 35mm film, K64.
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