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Humpback's  Ice-Flower

Humpback's Ice-Flower
by Roie Galitz


A humpback whale (Megaptera, from Ancient Greek for "giant wing") surfaces to breathe after diving deep for krill, breaking the water at the heart of a flower-shaped opening in the sea ice. From above, the dark water and scattered floes frame its glowing pectoral fins, in a fleeting moment where art and nature become one.