[IMAGE: http://www.intrepidphotos.com/intrepidphotos/PermaLinks/Iceworld.jpg]
> "The ice is near, the solitude tremendous - but how calmly all things lie in the light! How freely one breathes! How much one feels beneath oneself! " Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888
There is always something surreal about ice landscapes. Your brain tries to make sense of them, but the repetitive uniformity and endlessness defy logic. After a while it seems like your staring into a giant fractal; a truly humbling experience. At its terminus the Perito Moreno Glacier has an average thickness of 170m (558ft); the contorted ripples on the surface are between 30 and 60 m (98 and 195 ft) high. The climbers in the first shot help provide some scale. The glacier makes up a tiny fraction of the Southern Patagonian Icefield which with a total area of 12,363 km2 (4,773 sq mi) of ice is the third largest body of fresh water in the world (after the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets). As the planet continues to warm up, the ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate and has retreated over 10km since Nietzsche wrote those words in his final book Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is.
The shot below is of a large section of ice that was under stress, and fracturing, from nearby part of the glacier not far from here. The extreme brightness of the ice, capable of causing snow blindness in a short period of time, has silhouetted out the sky. Argentine Patagonia, Argentina
[IMAGE: http://www.intrepidphotos.com/intrepidphotos/PermaLinks/SouthernPatagonianIcefield.jpg]
Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography
All images in this post were taken by and remain the Copyright of Robert Downie - http://www.robertdowniephotography.com
Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by intrepidphotos from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows. Please find us at the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: 50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP. Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.
This post has received votes totaling more than $50.00 from the following pay for vote services:
minnowbooster upvote in the amount of $229.94 STU, $403.86 USD.
For a total calculated value of $230 STU, $404 USD before curation, with approx. $57 USD curation being earned by the paid voters.
This information is being presented in the interest of transparency on our platform and is by no means a judgement as to the quality of this post.
@ijmmai | May 16, 2018, 8:57 a.m. | Votes: 0 | [
VOTE ]
Sometimes I feel like we are making ourselves more important than we are. Maybe nature needs to do this, the warming up, to restore some kind of state, correct something that is wrong. Maybe it is not as much our doing, but greater powers are at work.
Could it be we are just fooling ourselves by thinking we can stop the process. There have been periods of floods and ice in the existance of earth at times we did not have all the things that are said to be the cause of the current warming of the earth.
Great pictures. Images like these, show us how tiny we are compared to the universe.
Thanks for sharing.
