The Cavel Glacier sits below the vertical cliffs of Mt. Edith Cavel, in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The glacier has a series of concave fractures so massive it looks like a huge boot heel has stomped on the end of the glacier. It's not a big glacier by glacier standards but it is still impressive to see the huge chunks of ice that break off and drift across the lake to end up stranded on the opposite shore. There is a bit of dirt in the ice flow. You can see it as black specks. I tried to use some simple photo software to cover up the dirt a little but the final image seemed to have lost its overall clarity. So for now, the dirt stays. As always there is no colour manipulation. It's just a shot through a telephoto lens.
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Christine brand 20 Jan 2008
totally impressive and amazing the blues and forms, nature in still, yet movingly beautiful.Pamela Tweton 03 Feb 2007
So may people do not realize how intense and alluring the colour blue is in a glacier. Thank you for leaving in the dirt, as it is part of the glacial process of movement. What an absolutely stunning and beautiful photo. I love the reflections that you have captured.epsylon lyrae 29 Oct 2005
Very nice, strange how ice is so blue...:DKendra kuss 26 Oct 2005
Very pretty, not something you get to seeVirginia Gordon 24 Oct 2005
This is BEAUTIFUL! Peter, with Unreal LOVELINESS, It looks like a Painting.