1st place
gold star award
Petr Polách
czech republic 
Photo © Petr Polách
title
Under the ice on the Arctic Circle
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entry description
This photo shows a view of the White Sea ice from under the water. The ice there is usually about a metre thick, and breaks up on the shore with the tide, forming different shapes. The light from the sun's rays breaks up into different colours at the edges of the ice. This image was taken while ice diving in the White Sea on the Arctic Circle.about the photographer
I come from the Czech Republic. I have been a photographer for a long time and after I started diving in 2003, I took this hobby to the underwater world. So now I shoot both "above water" and "under water". I have visited different parts of the world, from warm southern oceans and seas, to geographically temperate places, to northern areas with very cold water. In recent years I have focused on photography in flooded cave systems in the Yucatan.back to gallery