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Whitefish photographer DEE LINNELL BLANK and her partner were backpacking in Glacier National Park last August when they came upon this snowfield near Jackson Glacier. “The rhythm and patterns repeating in the bedrock and collapsing snowfield were a great example of the dynamic landscape around the glacier,” she says. “There were icefalls, exposed geology, and waterfalls gushing everywhere. The blue you see is the freshly broken surfaces of old, compacted snow. When the crystals and air pockets compress, they filter out the longer red wavelengths of light and allow more of the shorter blue wavelengths to be seen.” ■
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MARCH-APRIL 2012
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