Ancient Ice

Waiting for those grey clouds to break up a bit pays off and some sunset color finally pushes through. Water from icebergs is considered the purest form of water on earth. 15, 000 to 20, 000 years ago, the earth’s snow was pure and untouched by any type of pollution. During the ice age, the snow that fell during this glacial period was compacted into massive glacial icefields, which were protected from mankind’s development and all other impurities from the outside world. Eventually huge pieces of icebergs calved off from the Greenland Glacier floated for 2 years and ended up stuck on some rocks where I photographed it. Pieces from this iceberg broke off and washed up on this rocky shelf to be a foreground in my photograph and one of those pieces of ice ended up in my water bottle. What a journey that iceberg has taken for us to meet in this small cove and deliver fresh and pure water at my feet. I raised my glass of that fresh water as a toast to that ice giant from the north and drank it's ancient water down...damn that was refreshing!