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[edit] Ice Blink

By Fishdecoy

Wisps of aurora australis streak through the nighttime sky, giving way to the never-setting sun scribing pastel-colored arcs through summer polar skies. Antarctica wraps herself in a frigid white cloak extending hundreds of miles into the sea. Immense tabular icebergs shimmer and dance above the horizon, as streaks of light from ice yet unseen set clouds aglow.

Frozen ghost ships of ice loom as spirits of the South, their lumbering bulk hidden in fog, then revealed. Jagged bergy bits and growlers crouch behind waves ready to hole unsuspecting vessels. Ice crystal storms pelt ‎seamen on watch, while monster whales, baleen straining ocean water, breach alongside. Storm petrels on the wing flitter. As Adelie penguins scamper in the ocean like dolphins.

Ships at sea and the men aboard them shrink to insignificant specks amidst the grace of Antarctica's unbounded icy cathedral. Earth’s transcendent beauty and majesty overwhelm. A lone seaman weeps.

[edit] Minnehaha in a Word

By Fishdecoy

Minnehaha's "laughing waters" flow beneath the Avenue Bridge on a course destined for the Mississippi River and the long journey to the sea. Ha! Minnehaha's serene goes unnoticed overhead where drivers of speeding cars rush to and fro. Nearby, a dale flush with golden winter grasses snuggles into a crook of Minnehaha's banks. The roar of distant jets at the airport muffles the sound of laughter floating in the air from children ice skating. Swoosh, skate, laugh. Minnehaha.

[edit] Photography

Maritime

Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.	Iceberg lookout.	Ship at ice pier.	Ice pier mishap.
Observation Hill.	The bosun.	Aloft.	The helmsman.
Watchstanders.	South China Sea rescue.	SS Overseas Alice.	Panamanian tugboat.

Scenery

Mayon volcano.

Fishing dock.

Cultural Landscape

South Pass, Wyo.	Mindanao, Philippines.	Storyman Mike Mann.	QuetzalCoatlicue dancers.
QuetzalCoatlicue dancer.	Lake & Hiawatha Streets.	38th Street Station.	Hiawatha Avenue Corridor.
Hiawatha Avenue Corridor.	Hiawatha Avenue Corridor.	Hiawatha Avenue Corridor.	46th Street Station.
Hiawatha Light Rail.	Grain elevator demolition.	Minneapolis grain elevators.	Chainsaw sculpture.
Wyoming Jackalope.