The Beauty of Ice |
Posted on April 7th, 10:50PM , 2009 by chris in |
Saw a great episode of Nova on PBS about the Extreme Ice Survey - images of it, how it's melting, and what that means. What dragged me in was the photographer James Balog, who is an amazing nature photographer. I have his book Tree: A New Vision Of The American Forest and it's one of the few photography books that I actually look at with any regularity.
The beauty of the landscapes and features that they showed, along with the time-lapse images was amazing. After Planet Earth, the ante definitely got upped for showing nature through moving pictures. Time-lapse is now the way to go - for everyone who can't get out to these places in real life, at multiple times throughout the year (or longer) to see the changes themselves.
Maybe the beauty of the images, undercuts the climate change message they're going for, but that's ok.


