It's amazing just how many wonderful royalty-free or license-free photos there are on the web, accessible either through Wikimedia Commons or from photographers who are happy to see their photos getting exposure and used, sometimes with the request that a source should be acknowledged. One of the big photo suppliers is Dreamstime, and in the past I have purchased photo usage rights and video footage from them for use on specific projects. Now I have taken advantage of one of their special offers to download some images that would normally be paid for, via one of their monthly or yearly "photo use" schemes. Below are some of the images recently acquired for non-commercial use. They are all Greenland images, from both east and west coasts, and although they are spoiled to some degree by the presence of watermarks, we can still see huge numbers of features of interest.
This is a nice photo of a "blocking nunatak" near the west coast of Greenland. The rock surface has been heavily moulded by overriding ice in the past. The two streams of ice -- both coming from the Greenland Ice Sheet -- are quite active, and the contacts between them and the flanks of the nunatak are marked by prominent moraines. There is a lake at the meeting point of the two ice streams -- very dirty, and there is much sediment in the water. Then there is another moraine marking the parallel flow of the ice streams out towards the coast.
This is probably an autumn photo, with the fjords ice-free and the land surface covered in fresh snow. the pattern of fjords on the west coast is shown with great clarity. The fjord pattern is very complex, with some transverse and intersecting fjords, probably influenced by fault lines or other zones of weakness in the bedrock.
Showing the pics on a blog such as this is a good way of evaluating how they might look on a web site or, for example, in a magazine article. Anybody that wants to use them should contact Dreamstime directly.
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