Photography Love: Icebergs and Newfoundland Fog
When I went on my trip to Newfoundland in the summer, I saw my first iceberg - or at least, the one most up-close and personal. (And because I’m anal, I need to point out that I am not okay with the blue lines that show up around these linked images in internet explorer. I am not okay with anything in connection with internet explorer. But I need to have links, since the images are from my Flickr account. And I seem to have somehow lost access to my stylesheet in Wordpress, a glitch which I am too lazy and angry to do anything about at the time being. Okay, moving on.)
Oh, actually, two!
I just came across a great series of photographs by Camille Seaman, entitled The Last Iceberg. I highly recommend clicking through the images, the design is seamless and a joy to navigate. I am not going to post any here since it’s much better to view them on her site. They are haunting and unbelievably beautiful. Here is her artist’s statement:
The Last Iceberg is one piece of a larger project entitled “Melting Away” which documents the polar regions of our planet, their environments, life forms, history of human exploration and the communities that work and live there.
Nick Cave once sang, “All things move toward their end.” Icebergs give the impression of doing just that, in their individual way much as humans do; they have been created of unique conditions and shaped by their environments to live a brief life in a manner solely their own. Some go the distance traveling for many years slowly being eroded by time and the elements; others get snagged on the rocks and are whittled away by persistent currents. Still others dramatically collapse in fits of passion and fury.
The Last Iceberg chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.
These images were made in both the Arctic regions of Svalbard, Greenland, and Antarctica.
I took some of my favourite photographs in Newfoundland that same summer, so I thought I would share some of them. Aside from a smidge of enhanced colour, these photographs are not doctored in any way - maybe I should be taking photographs for postcards! By the way, I have no real delusions about my photography skills - I take good shots at utter random moments. And I’ve lost my battery charger, so I am powerless to show you any of my recent yummy recipe shots. Ah, well, this will have to do for now.
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