by aramatzne@gmail.com | 2 Sep 2019 | Roads Taken
Day 2, or 3
Sky, water, snow, mountains, and light all come together, fading one into the other or standing rigidly separate. Hard lines between water and mountains and mountains and sky are few. Ice and rock, clouds and light bridge the gaps, creating an infinite variety of landscapes. An occasional reality check, a Rubik’s cube, another boat, or a man-made object bring the focus back to every day, the mundane, the necessities of human life in the Arctic. But the sky and the landscape are the stuff of dreams.

First and second mate try their hands at a Rubik’s cube

All courses start here.

Hazy, misty light gives depth where snow and cloud blend together

Range upon range gives way to the coming glacier

Crowding into the valley

A ship at glacier’s mouth

Ice and rock below Victerhukfjellet, the folded mountain

Shore ice glows as the evening sun drops below the cloud ceiling

Kristen watches the flank below Vikterhukfjellet

Blue ice, pink mountains

Victerhukfjellet at sunset

A trapper’s meat cache reaches out of polar bear range

The finest skim of ice doesn’t prevent a near-perfect mirror image
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 29 Jul 2019 | Roads Taken
Time zones and timelines
At some point during my trip, I realized that I never changed the date and time on my camera to reflect the European time zone. Photos I take on one day appear with a different day and time than when I took them. Time becomes irrelevant and the bright days flow into cold, star-filled nights. The textures of water, clouds, and mountains shift with the morning and evening light, the wind, and the speed of Antigua.

Cloud and mountain play as one

The last of the autumn birds

The long, flat plain gives way

Reflective water stretches mountains

Land breaching

Mountains rise from the water
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 15 Jul 2019 | Roads Taken
Last impressions of the first day

Worn, gray glacier ice plows past mountains

Ymerbukta’s high point, an esker at the foot of Esmarkbreen

Minuartia, maybe? Still blooming under the first fall snow during the first week of October.

Esmarkbreen and Ymerbukta

The face of Esmarkbreen

Deck of the tall ship Antigua

Northern lights play over Antigua’s bow
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 1 Jul 2019 | Roads Taken
Views from a glacier front

Iceberg on sand

Arctic Circle residents exploring

Ice and mountain

Bow and ice

Landscape number x. Brown and russet, gray and white, tundra and mountain.

Purple sandpiper
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by aramatzne@gmail.com | 17 Jun 2019 | Roads Taken
Along the glacier’s edge

Glacial ice boulder at the edge of Esmarkbreen

Boulder in perspective

Glacier’s edge at mountains’ feet

Ice and rock = rock dust

Scale
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