Click to enlarge. This is one of the most fabulous images I have ever seen of a receding glacier front. (I don't like referring to a "retreating glacier" since glaciers do not turn round and go marching back up the valleys whence they came....... They keep on moving forward, but when the rate of melting on the surface and at the snout exceeds the forward movement, then they have a problem.......)
There is no point in trying to describe everything visible in this image -- but there is a whole course in glacial geomorphology captured here.
I don't even known where this photo was taken -- but I suspect it might be somewhere in Patagonia.
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