I made this photo at almost nine o’clock at night, yet the sun still had an hour to go before it was to set. Glacier’s such as this one will now and then "crack and groan," a sign that a chunk of its ice, large or small, is about to fall into the sea. The particular piece of ice “calving” from the face of the Margerie glacier was large enough to produce a report as loud as a cannon blast. The force of ice hitting water sends splashes both high and wide. I particularly liked the color of the exploding water – it picks up the golden light heralding the coming sunset. Meanwhile, the wall of ice just above the splash seems to quiver and shake.