Vagabond’s Caravan

Upsala, originally uploaded by Ricardo Bevilaqua.

The above photo is a shot on the Upsala Glacier from Argentina. It’s actually some sort of glacier called blue ice.

Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of a glacier. During its travels, all of the air bubbles that are trapped in the ice are squeezed out, and the size of the ice crystals increases, making it clear. The ice is blue for the same reason water is blue. Namely, it is a result of an overtone of a OH molecular stretch in the water which absorbs light at the red end of the visible spectrum. (From Wikipedia )

My short half an hour flickr exploration leads me to a lot of marvelous photos, and I picked this one as my favourite. =)

It’s such an impressive photo, and it’s not a digi-art! =) I wish I could see this blue ice in real. * drooling~ *