2007: Wildscapes - Winner
Robert Knight (United States of America)
Ice creation
'The sea around South Georgia, off Antarctica, is full of icebergs, broken off from the huge glaciers down there. From our boat one day we saw a beautiful formation of cyan-blue pinnacles and ridges. The challenge was to capture something of the beauty and wildness of the scene, while waves buffeted the boat and spray covered me.' Icebergs are made of freshwater, not saltwater, which is why they float. They began as falling snow thousands of years ago. At any one time there may be 300,000 icebergs in the Southern Ocean, swept along up to 40 kilometres a day by wind and ocean currents.
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II + 70-200mm f2.8 IS lens; 1/800 sec at f13; ISO 200.
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