Description
The nadir aerial perspective reveals the true three-dimensional geometry of a floating tabular iceberg in a way that no ground-level photograph can — the underwater profile visible through the clear Arctic water as an aquamarine shadow extending well beyond the white surface area of the ice. This photograph, made from a drone at 80m altitude above an approximately 200m-wide tabular iceberg drifting in Scoresby Sund, reveals both the white surface of the berg and its distinctive blue-green underwater volume as a shadow in the clear fjord water. The image simultaneously documents the physics of iceberg buoyancy (the visible proportion versus the submerged mass) and creates a visually compelling colour study in white, blue, and aquamarine.
