📸 + 💭: alexcornell What’s amazing to me is that these are photographs of nature. No grumpy cats or exploding rainbows; just a piece of ice sitting in the water. It’s really exciting to me that we can still be captivated by something so simple. From a distance it looked like rock. Up close it looked like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude — an emerald anomaly floating in a sea of white. It sounded equally strange, fizzing through cracks in its surface as pockets of compressed air, water and ice did battle within. It was, of course, an iceberg, but in a highly unusual state. This one had recently flipped over, revealing a pure jade underside for a brief, wondrous window of time. This is the story of how we found it. Many icebergs appear blueish, especially along the water’s surface, but this one was blue through and through. The scientist on board got visibly excited as we approached; this was a rare sight. #POTD #photooftheday #AntarcticaWeek