Our guides had warned us that the Arctic ice was melting.

It didn't seem to make sense as we were seeing snow, ice and more snow and more ice. Our final destination of Resolute Bay was not confirmed because of the ice cover on our route. it seemed to be a contradiction - we kept sailing farther north to try and delay the final approach. Where was this melting ice?

Traveling by zodiac, nearer to a glacier, I was excited to see a waterfall streaming down the side and pooling at the bottom. It was a unique photograph and I was excited to photograph it. I later learned that the waterfall image wasn’t a ‘lucky find’ - it was an indicator of something else. As ice melts, the deep ‘glacier blue’, indicative of a healthy iceberg, turns paler and then gray, and then it becomes a clear stream of water, just as we were seeing.

As I looked at the the image, I decided to flip it. I now had blue ‘mountains’ on top and the line of ice from the melting glacier disappeared into the ocean. It helped me connect to what I had seen and felt. Mother Nature has drawn a line in the ice. Global warming is here, the proof is there. We just have to see it.

Glacier blue, glacier grey, glacier gone.