Bearded Seal, SvalbardA bearded seal, settled on a slab of glacial ice in Svalbard. The water beneath is perfectly still, and that flat, diffused Arctic light picks out every texture in the fractured blue ice behind. No wind, no drama in the sky, just this remarkable quiet. The seal sits low in the frame, dwarfed by the wall of glacier ice rising behind it. That ice carries an extraordinary range of blue, from pale aqua where it's thin to deep cobalt in the crevasses. The