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“Landscape” view/much closer view (#5A in series: glacier’s size, in Alaska)

 

First, please have a close look at this post’s image.

It offers a much closer view than that presented in “4A” of this series.

When I took the “5A” & “5B” images we really were much closer to the same glacier’s snout, but for the “5A” image I also deployed a telephoto rather than a wide angle lens.

Now, have another look at the “4A”image, which shows all of this glacier’s snout, rather than a small portion thereof.

In “4A” the snout does not look very high, the fractured/fallen ice chunks appear rather small, and – as was then true, via our naked eyes – it was not at all obvious that we were looking at several square kilometres of glacier surface.

As you can see, here in “5A”, the glacier’s snout was very much taller -and the fallen ice-chunks much bigger – than we had imagined, just minutes earlier.

That said, we were still not yet quite close enough to grasp how big things were.

 

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