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Sapphire Cave by Joffrey Briaud

Collection

Frozen Planet by Concurrence Collective

Description

In all my years of travel I’ve discovered a deep passion for nordic territories: Norway, Canada, Iceland. Along those travels, I’ve experienced so many things that I am so grateful to have lived in my life. Meeting a bear during a hike, spending nights in the cold staring at the incredible northern lights, and so on. But one of the most breathtaking experiences I’ve lived was my visit to the Icelandic glacier Jökulsárlón and its ice caves. After a two-hour walk on the glacier with our guide, we were able to enjoy a walk deep inside its guts, in ice tunnels dug by rivers formed from ice melting, called “moulins”. An impressive moment surrounded by 30m high walls of ice, in a tunnel tight of 1m. After that, we left for the last part of our incredible journey, the Sapphire Cave. Despite all my goodwill, I wouldn’t be able to describe the amazing feeling it is to walk underneath this roof of blue ice, lit by the outside light. The wet, cold, solid, and soft touch of the ice walls, disrupted only by those black points here and there, which are black sands and volcanic ashes transported on the glacier by the wind over the centuries, trapped in the ice and freed by its melting. A unique moment to enjoy the ephemeral beauty of nature, on the edge between strength and fragility. iso: 400 | f/13 | focal length: 16mm | shutter speed: 5s | noise stacking: 5 images stacked for noise reduction | exposure blend: 1 image for the cave and 1 for the entry | total images used: 6 Size: 4147 × 6220 Artist: Joffrey Briaud Joffrey Briaud is a professional landscape photographer who grew up under the sun of the South East of France, somewhere between mountains and sea. In 2018, planning a trip to the arctic country of Norway, he took the decision to buy his first camera to capture the beauty of the Northern Lights. This is how a convenient purchase turned into a true passion, pushing him to dedicate all his savings from his hard work as a bartender to travel to some of the most incredible places in the world and capture their beauty. Regarding the difficulty to find some free time out of his work to practice his passion he decided in 2021 to stop his bartender career to focus 100% on photography and make it a full-time job. A self-taught artist, his unique style can be defined as complex, dreamy and colorful. This NFT is part of the Frozen Planet collection by Concurrence Collective - a project born out of community. An international team of photographers coming together with a shared passion for capturing the natural beauty of the world. Through this collection, our journeys & expeditions will transport you to the coldest regions of this majestic home of ours, whether they are permanently frozen, or have undergone the transition into winter.