Untitled (07 February 2009, 23:39:34 GMT), Antarctica, Vol.3 (Ice Horizons) (from the series The Polar Project)

The Ice Horizons volume portrays the brilliant color phenomena that occur when sunlight interacts with the vast Antarctic ice fields.  These images depict the fields of ice on the northeastern periphery of the Ahlmann Ridge Range in the Queen Maud Land area of Antarctica.  This immense body of ice, which extends toward the edge of the horizon in every direction, can be thousands of feet think.  With ice particulate blowing constantly in the wind across the snow and ice covered ground, virtually everything in this landscape is a refracting surface, waiting to scatter and bend light.  Antarctica literally holds light within it.  As sunlight moves slowly throughout the environment here, it shimmers across and beneath the ice and snow, illuminating the horizon with vibrant color combinations.