Glacier Detail, SvalbardThe blue in glacial ice like this comes from density. Decades, sometimes centuries of compression force the air out, and what remains absorbs red light and reflects blue back at you. The deeper the compression, the more intense the colour. This close up was made in Svalbard, where the glaciers are old enough to produce remarkable shades. I wanted to fill the frame entirely with the ice itself. No sky, no horizon, no sense of scale. Just the raw