Glacier Structures
Photography Valais glacier – Saas valley, Switzerland


Glacier Structures

The glacier lies before you like an open chronicle, captured in black and white, reduced to its essentials. Its surface is crisscrossed with lines, folds, and deep crevasses—scars of slow, relentless movement. Here, the Alps write their history not with words, but with pressure, cold, and time.
The structures resemble a stone relief, as if the earth itself had flexed its muscles. Each crevasse opens like a silent abyss, a breath of ice that speaks of inner tension. The glacier seems to be alive, heavy and majestic, yet vulnerable. There is a quiet drama in its structure, a balance between eternal power and dwindling mass.
In the monochrome light, everything superfluous is faded out. What remains is the pure form, the raw truth of nature. The gaze glides over the surfaces, loses itself in the rhythmic lines and inevitably senses the transience that lies beneath the apparent rigidity. Climate change is not a distant concept here, but a quiet, unspoken presence, inscribed in the ice.
This landscape takes you away from everyday life and at the same time confronts you with time. It is both a memorial and a masterpiece – a sublime reminder of how big, how strong and how fragile the Alps really are.
An eye for the perfect moment
Falko Burghausen is an internationally awarded landscape photographer with a keen sense of light, composition and atmosphere. On his tours through the wild nature of the Alps and Scandinavia, he creates expressive images that radiate tranquillity, vastness and power - captured with a professional eye and produced as high-quality fine art prints for anyone looking for something special.

An eye for the perfect moment
Falko Burghausen is an internationally awarded landscape photographer with a keen sense of light, composition and atmosphere. On his tours through the wild nature of the Alps and Scandinavia, he creates expressive images that radiate tranquillity, vastness and power - captured with a professional eye and produced as high-quality fine art prints for anyone looking for something special.
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