Pancake Ice Silhouettes on Arctic Shoreline in along a wave-cut shoreline near Reykjavik

Pancake Ice Silhouettes on Arctic Shoreline

by Atlas Knight

Dark, circular discs of pancake ice cluster tightly along the wave-cut edge where the freezing Arctic sea meets the land. The low sun sits just beyond the horizon, casting the floating ice into stark black silhouettes against a sky that holds a faint, pale gradient of twilight blue. Each disc features a raised, frozen rim that catches the last ambient light, creating thin, jagged edges. The water between the ice is a deep, inky void, reflecting the clear, cloudless expanse above. The arrangement of the discs suggests a slow, rhythmic motion, pressing together in a dense, irregular mosaic. A sharp line of white foam separates the dark ice from the wet, dark sand at the immediate foreground.

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Camera iPhone XS*AI-imagined, not shot. For real iPhone XS photos, grab one online.
Lens 52mm f/2.4
Focal Length 52mm
Aperture f/2.4
Shutter Speed 1/500
ISO 3200
Film processed in Halide
Location along a wave-cut shoreline near Reykjavik
Date 2022-04-26
Credit VEETER
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