Iceberg Abstract, SvalbardGlacial ice under compression does remarkable things with light. The deeper you look into these formations, the more intensely blue they become. Centuries of snowfall, compacted and squeezed until all the air is forced out, leaving ice so dense it absorbs every wavelength except blue. This was made on a glacier face in Svalbard, working close enough to fill the frame with nothing but ice and the dark mineral streaks running through it. The overcast