i saw Chasing Ice last night and recommend it both for what it says about
melting of glaciers and as a story about a photographer's quest; both topics
get about equal weight in the film, which surprised me — it is as much a
laudatory biopic of James Balog and extreme photography as it is about the
disappearing glaciers
<http://www.chasingice.com/see-the-film/trailer/>
i met Balog briefly in the early 90s when i was production director for
Buzzworm Magazine (we published images from his Endangered Species and Next of
Kin series), and i've casually followed his career since; the intensity with
which he pursues his subjects seems to have reached a peak in his Extreme Ice
Survey, which this film documents; if nothing else it's worth watching him
photograph ice floes barefoot in the Icelandic surf; geekier, but also fun, are
the logistics of installing dozens of time-lapse DSLRs (they are Nikons) at the
ends of the earth
the evidence on climate change in the film is very subjective; it isn't
intended as "proof" in itself, but i fear it will be one of the more dramatic
epitaphs for the climate we knew; even if you think climate change is a hoax, i
think you will find inspiration in the photographic endeavor and in the glacier
photography itself
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