
Sonny Vandevelde
Fashion should be fun and with my photography I love to create those fun moments.
Travel
Rhone Glacier in Switzerland
having visited this 5 years ago, you can see the effect of climate change
Where the Rhone river starts
gushing
flowing fast, eventually passing through Geneva, then Lyon and out to the Mediterranean after Arles, France
looking very turbulent, due to the area down there, 70 years or so still being part of the glacier, all melted
bendy road we will head down later, but behind it, in the late 1800's and early 1900's there would still be a glacier, gone, melted away
smooth rocks on either side from the 1000's of years of ice moving over the rocks
a glacier apparently moves 80 meters a year
smooth rocks
and gushing water
so that is literally where the Rhone river starts if you don't count the head of the glacier
people used to stay here to come and witness the giant glacier which is no longer, just like the one behind the hotel
slowly melting, it is sad, but in this sadness I still am drawn to that magical blue colour
mini iceberg in lake Rhone
the glacier as it is now, and compare it here to how it was 5 years ago when I visited and you can see the definite line of where it was just 70-90 years ago
red line marks where it was 70-90 years ago, that's a lot of ice melted away
so we would not have been able to stand on this rock, we would be 90-100 meters under the ice
Jacqui happy we made the detour to come see the Glacier
so again, I marked to show how high the glacier used to be
you can see it now without the marks
smooth rocks
this was all under ice
the smoothness in theforeground
lines are created on the big boulders from small rocks being dragged across it as the glacier slowly moved downhill
we go inside, again, when you compare it 5 years ago, it is soooo much smaller
in we go
I love the colour and smoothness
going in deeper
all the bits of matter from thousands of years ago, maybe even a million years ago
love it
like a photo from a scene in a space movie
blue ice
these shapes
sculpture created my melting
pretty
all those air bubbles
once they melt
is it also releasing oxygen from 1000's of years ago
blue
oxygen trapped who knows how many years ago
about to be released
love these shapes
love
back outside
and the rock, which was once covered, meet the glacier, which is now covered in particles form the mountain, causing the glacier to melt even faster as the sun warms the black rocks and pebbles
makes for an interesting visual but at the same time I am worried
back to the lake
walking away from the glacier
I keep turning around to take another photo
and another
just like this tourist
impressive
got the same shot back in 2018
but this has shrunk
new hole starts and everything slowly sinking into it and melting
Rhone
up higher
Rhone down below
back to car park and next drive