Glacier Carving Valley Alaska
by Rick Bures
Title
Glacier Carving Valley Alaska
Artist
Rick Bures
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Photograph - Photograph
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Glacier Carving Valley, Alaska. In this horizontal composition, a great wall of blue and white ice looms over the head of a glacial valley. On the left, we see the side of a mountain sloping into a glacial valley, the mountain and valley carved by previous glacial action and the mountain side scoured clean by the experience. The scene is viewed from an upward-turned angle, the sense of height emphasized by the clouds through which we see the vista. The light is dimly diffuse, and fairly glows from the ice wall. Glaciers, great sheets of moving ice, carve out characteristic U-shaped valleys (sometimes called glacial valleys), sculpt glacial mountains, and melt forming glacial waterfalls. This shot is from Endicott Arm Fjord, near Dawes Glacier, located at the end of a glacier-carved fjord off of the Stephens Passage seaway in southern Alaska. It is not far from Sawyer Glacier and Mendenhall Glacier. Cruise ships often visit Dawes and Sawyer Glaciers, sailing up to within about a quarter of a mile of the glacier face in the deep waters of the fjords. Look also for my many other photos of Endicott Arm Fjord, Dawes Glacier, and Alaska.
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July 14th, 2017
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