Travel nominee

This series looks in increasing detail at the breathtaking beauty of Fjallsárlón, a stunning glacial lagoon nestled at the southern edge of Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland.

Starting with a "stand back" panoramic view of the glacier inexorably sliding into the lagoon, the rest of the series goes into increasing detail, courtesy of boarding a Zodiac inflatable and handholding in a light that celebrates "The Land of Fire and Ice" but challenges the making of panorama images!

The progression shows the glacier closer up and then goes on to capture closer images of the icebergs that have broken off from the glacier.

The icebergs have melted and "turned turtle", when the bottom of the berg has flipped to be visible above the water level, revealing "black" icebergs - which is organic matter, that dates back many thousands of years ago, scraped off the ground and rocks as the glacier has ground its way downwards, unseen until the melt has happened.

The importance of celebrating the beauty of these objects is increasing as the Arctic ice cap melts quicker than the glacier can grow.

In my time I have been a shop assistant, a teacher, a doctor, an army officer, an acupuncturist, a sports physician, a distiller, a bar tender and a mixologist. I have also climbed many mountains, flown planes (badly), ridden motorcycles and played bass guitar.
Through all of this, I have slowly but surely developed my photography as a means of expressing the importance of travel, meeting people and seeing without talking.
Photography is the closest I will ever come to time travel - any image is a moment of captured time and I can revisit that time whenever I look at it. So I want my images to be something that people can visit by themselves and in doing so, lose themselves in that little packet of time.