Iceland #9 - Abandoned Blue Berg

[Josh-H]

Taken at the black sand beaches near the Jokulsarlon Glacial lagoon. full story on this photograph on my blog at http://blog.jholko.com
Thoughts and comments welcome as always - thanks for looking.

[DarkPenguin]

Who abandoned it?

[Josh-H]

Who abandoned it?

 
The Vatnajokull glacier it carved off 

[popnfresh]

Of all your Iceland photos so far, this is my favorite. It's a terrific shot!

[DarkPenguin]

Of all your Iceland photos so far, this is my favorite. It's a terrific shot!

+1

[Chairman Bill]

Great shot. The lack of sense of scale is disconcerting (in a good way), as is the sea level. On the left it coincides with a pointy protrusion on the iceberg. On the right hand side it appears to have dropped away. Optical illusion time.

[francois]

Stunning, I love it!

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I think it's beached, not floating.

Another lovely one, Josh. And I do like the way you are feeding them to us one at a time, several days apart, so that each one gets a serious look.
Great series!

Eric

[wolfnowl]

Nice one John.  The berg looks like a newly hatched penguin, which is appropriate for an iceberg, even in the wrong hemisphere!

Mike.

[jeremypayne]

Super, super, super nice shot. 

Don't take this the wrong way ... I've enjoyed seeing your work in the past, but this is the first image I wanted to put on my wall.

[Chairman Bill]

I thought it looked like two penguins, side-by-side, skimming up the beach on their bellies.

[John R]

Not much to add, a wonderful shot. Reminds me of that song lyric, "Crystal Blue Persuasion".

JMR

[Josh-H]

thanks all - I am pleased to say this shot made the daily dozen on National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/daily-dozen

[tokengirl]

Congratulations, well deserved.  It's a fantastic photo.

[Dick Roadnight]

Taken at the black sand beaches near the Jokulsarlon Glacial lagoon. full story on this photograph on my blog at http://blog.jholko.com
Thoughts and comments welcome as always - thanks for looking.

It looks like a sculpture of a bird or seal or something, and that "something" is looking out of the picture to the right.

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Your iceland shots evaporate a sort of perfection and slickness, that I always get the feeling of CGI
and feel reminded of my days (and nights) experimenting with POVRay.

This is not a critique, but a metaphor to point out that special unique style and craft of your images,
which look really marvelous to me.

And now, as a greedy watcher who never gets enough, I want to see this in b/w conversions.

[michswiss]

Now that you've had a critique, I just wanted to say this is a great image.

[Riaan van Wyk]

I like it too. The contrast/ composition between the fluidity of the sea and the fastness of the "berg" which also happens to be the same sea water is appealing to me. And then of course the colours.. 

[larryg]

very Stunning   great color

[Josh-H]

THank you all for the wonderful feedback.