This mile wide, 21-mile long glacier was named for the famed French geographer Emmanuel de Margerie, who visited Glacier Bay in 1913. It is 350 feet high – 250 feet of it stand above the water line, and 100 feet lies below the surface. This glacier is so large in scale that it can’t be encompassed within a single image. I chose to move in on the craggy shafts of ice that soar above it, providing a base layer for the snow capped mountains and cloud laced sky that fill the background. A range of various blue colors fills the image – dirty ice, shadowed snow, and pure blue sky. It is a mountain of ice -- austere, cold, chilling, and massive.