honorable mention
Scott Reither united statesPhoto © Scott Reither
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SCULPTED
They gathered and accumulated, eventually merging to take on the form of ice.
Many more snowflakes came year after year and landed on their new ice-form, weighing them down and compressing them. It forced them to toughen up and unite. They crystallized, and took on their next form - glacier.
They maintained a glacier-state for a thousand years or more, slowly flowing together many miles downward to the sea, one short millimeter at a time.
Four years ago, she and a group of others broke free from the greater form and for the first time in millennia, were independent. There was a sense of buoyancy, floating free in a giant lagoon, now as the form of iceberg.
Drifting tranquilly, the architecture of their group continually changed. There were always some leaving, she noticed, but where they went was unclear.
At times, other beings would use their form to stand and sit and rest on. Other times, the night sky would glow brilliantly above.
Eventually, their large house-sized iceberg was drawn steadily by a current and pulled to the ocean. They went from peacefully drifting in the reasonable waters to thrashing about and getting pummeled in the harsh ocean.
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entry description
Her first memory was as a snowflake many years ago, while falling softly from the sky and landing among other fellow snowflakes.They gathered and accumulated, eventually merging to take on the form of ice.
Many more snowflakes came year after year and landed on their new ice-form, weighing them down and compressing them. It forced them to toughen up and unite. They crystallized, and took on their next form - glacier.
They maintained a glacier-state for a thousand years or more, slowly flowing together many miles downward to the sea, one short millimeter at a time.
Four years ago, she and a group of others broke free from the greater form and for the first time in millennia, were independent. There was a sense of buoyancy, floating free in a giant lagoon, now as the form of iceberg.
Drifting tranquilly, the architecture of their group continually changed. There were always some leaving, she noticed, but where they went was unclear.
At times, other beings would use their form to stand and sit and rest on. Other times, the night sky would glow brilliantly above.
Eventually, their large house-sized iceberg was drawn steadily by a current and pulled to the ocean. They went from peacefully drifting in the reasonable waters to thrashing about and getting pummeled in the harsh ocean.
Read the rest of the story here:
https://www.scottreither.com/writings-return-to-source
about the photographer
Born and raised around Big Sur, California, Scott Reither has achieved international recognition as a fine art landscape photographer with a taste for the dramatic and the transcendental. His long-exposure photographs sensitively record the atmospheric effects, lyrical beauty and emotional revelations that occur through the combination of light, space and time. Captured in evocative locations around the world, Reither’s photographs are expressive evidence of the raw and wondrous truths still to be found in the landscape. Scott Reither lives in Maui with his wife Rebecca and travels frequently on photographic projects.back to gallery