Newfoundland Iceberg IV
This is the last of my colour iceberg images. I have really enjoyed the blues and greens of the colour images, but I have a few b&w and infrared images I will post after this.
In June, 2018, I went to Newfoundland, Canada, iceberg hunting. Every year, icebergs that have calved off glaciers in Greenland (and a few from Baffin Island), travel south and past Newfoundland in May and June along what's called Iceberg Alley. The snow that fell to form these icebergs, fell between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago! That snow forms into glaciers and every year, massive icebergs calve from the glaciers in Greenland and Baffin Island and begin their journey to Newfoundland. It takes two or three years for them to travel the 1,600 miles and they spend one or two winters frozen into the pack ice. By the time they arrive in Newfoundland, they only have four to six weeks before collapse or melt and disappear. 2016 and 2017 were great iceberg seasons (though they caused some havoc in shipping lanes), but 2018 there were very few icebergs to be found. It was only on the last 4 days of an 11-day trip, and at the very tip of Newfoundland (St. Anthony) that I managed find and see icebergs up close, but they were worth the wait.
I've written a blog post about my Newfoundland trip if you'd like to read it.
If you’d like to see all the Newfoundland images together, I’ve updated my website and you can see them all on the Galleries page.
Newfoundland Iceberg IV
This is the last of my colour iceberg images. I have really enjoyed the blues and greens of the colour images, but I have a few b&w and infrared images I will post after this.
In June, 2018, I went to Newfoundland, Canada, iceberg hunting. Every year, icebergs that have calved off glaciers in Greenland (and a few from Baffin Island), travel south and past Newfoundland in May and June along what's called Iceberg Alley. The snow that fell to form these icebergs, fell between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago! That snow forms into glaciers and every year, massive icebergs calve from the glaciers in Greenland and Baffin Island and begin their journey to Newfoundland. It takes two or three years for them to travel the 1,600 miles and they spend one or two winters frozen into the pack ice. By the time they arrive in Newfoundland, they only have four to six weeks before collapse or melt and disappear. 2016 and 2017 were great iceberg seasons (though they caused some havoc in shipping lanes), but 2018 there were very few icebergs to be found. It was only on the last 4 days of an 11-day trip, and at the very tip of Newfoundland (St. Anthony) that I managed find and see icebergs up close, but they were worth the wait.
I've written a blog post about my Newfoundland trip if you'd like to read it.
If you’d like to see all the Newfoundland images together, I’ve updated my website and you can see them all on the Galleries page.