3 October 2018 – Day two, or is it three?

3 October 2018 – Day two, or is it three?

by | 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.

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Cloud and mountain play as one

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The last of the autumn birds

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The long, flat plain gives way

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Reflective water stretches mountains

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Land breaching

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Mountains rise from the water

At the end of the day

by | 15 Jul 2019 | Roads Taken

Last impressions of the first day

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Worn, gray glacier ice plows past mountains

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

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

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Esmarkbreen and Ymerbukta

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The face of Esmarkbreen

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Deck of the tall ship Antigua

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Northern lights play over Antigua’s bow

Ymerbukta and Esmarkbreen

by | 1 Jul 2019 | Roads Taken

Views from a glacier front

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Iceberg on sand

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Arctic Circle residents exploring

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Ice and mountain

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Bow and ice

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

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Purple sandpiper

Esmarkbreen – not quite monochrome

by | 17 Jun 2019 | Roads Taken

Along the glacier’s edge

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Glacial ice boulder at the edge of Esmarkbreen

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Boulder in perspective

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Glacier’s edge at mountains’ feet

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Ice and rock = rock dust

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Scale

The Road not Taken Enough