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This ~120-ft tall cruise ship shows the scale of the Marjorie Glacier approximately.
We were told that this glacier is 250 ft tall along its face; taking into account
perspective and our own view, I'd estimate the exposed face to be over 150 ft at
least, because we could not see over its top from the top deck of our ship..

July 7, 2003; Contax 645, 80mm lens, 1/500 f9.5; Portra 400NC
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The tiny splash on the face of the Margerie Glacier is from a piece of the face sliding
off its 250-foot-tall face. The next photos show the fan of floe ice that developed
from this.
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Margerie Glacier; the big splash is smaller; a fan of floe ice has begun to spread
out from the base of the glacier.
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Another bunch of ice has made the splash bigger; the fan of floe ice is swimming
fast away from its base.
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No more ice is falling from its face, and the fan of floe ice is spreading rapidly.
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In just a few minutes, the floe ice from the Margerie Glacier has formed a fan a half-
mile across.
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Beartrack Mountains - East side of Glacier Bay, Alaska.
July 8, 2003 Canon z90w, Royal Gold 400
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These are good-sized chunks of ice falling into the water, and they are so large
that they fall slowly, giving the creaky old photographer plenty of time to press the
shutter. The field of floe ice in the foreground was quickly made by a very large
part of the glacier's face that slouged away as we approached.

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/350 sec, f11; Portra 800
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Step 1: a smallish house-sized bunch of ice falls in a blur down the face of the
Marjorie Glacier.

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/20 sec, f45; Portra 800
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The house-sized piece hits the water with a house-sized spash.
We couldn't get anyone to stand under this to show the scale....

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/20 sec f45; Portra 800
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A condo-sized hunk follows, created a very large splash. This sounds just like
thunder.

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/30 sec, f38; Portra 800
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Grand Pacific Glacier is a black shoulder of ice about a mile wide and about 250 ft
high that is just east of the white, active Margerie glacier. I put this up mainly so
you'll understand that glaciers, like people, are not uniformly photogenic.
July 8, 2003, Glacier National Park.
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There <i>is</i> some greenery among the ice.

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/250 sec, f8; Portra 400VC
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OK, it's just a weird iceberg.
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Just as we hove to, a big section of the Marjerie Glacier sloughed, creating a huge
floe of ice cubes.

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/250 sec f8; Portra 400VC
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80mm, 1/250 sec, f5.6; Portra 400NC
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A glacier spills down the side of a mountain.
Glacier Bay, July 7, 2003

Contax 645, 80mm, 1/125 sec f8; Portra 400NC
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Reid Glacier

Contax 645, 210mm, 1/180 sec, f11; Portra 400VC
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July 8, 2003. Glacier Bay, Alaska
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Contax 645, 210mm, 1/180 sec f11; Portra 400VC
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Contax 645, 210mm, 1/125 sec, f11; Portra 400VC
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Contax 645, 210mm, 1/125sec f11; Portra 400VC
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A seal recumbent on an ice floe, bemused by the critters leaning over the rail
from the cruise ship. He is at home; they are not. The interest is mutual.
July 8, 2003; Glacier Bay National Park, AK
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I'm not in the photography business, but if you'd like a print of any, these photos in real life are all 6x4.5 cm color negatives (unless noted otherwise), and we can arrange this through Photos, Inc., of Minneapolis. I send them my negative and you send them your charge card number and address, and in a week or two you'll get a print. email me at drdan AT wwt.net if you wish to pursue this.