American Photography 42 Winners

Austral Ice Planet: Antarctica

I caught myself staring out, once again, into the infinity of ice, drinking in my insignificance. There was an almost imperceptible ripple in the flat surface. It was a coastline where Union Glacier met the sea, or rather, the floating Ronne Ice Shelf. The seasonally open waters of the Weddell Sea were still 600 km away, over the horizon. The age, the wisdom of this ice, & the indifference of this austral ice planet to the presence of a species that simply cannot survive, should not be there, is exhilarating. Antarctica’s been described as humanity’s last chance to get it right.

Austral Ice Planet: Antarctica

I caught myself staring out, once again, into the infinity of ice, drinking in my insignificance. There was an almost imperceptible ripple in the flat surface. It was a coastline where Union Glacier met the sea, or rather, the floating Ronne Ice Shelf. The seasonally open waters of the Weddell Sea were still 600 km away, over the horizon. The age, the wisdom of this ice, & the indifference of this austral ice planet to the presence of a species that simply cannot survive, should not be there, is exhilarating. Antarctica’s been described as humanity’s last chance to get it right.