Greenland is hot! Quite literally. Summer this year has been one of the hottest summers in Greenland. The icecap is melting faster than ever before. The current melt was only predicted to happen in 2070. And with 50 years ‘ahead of schedule’ it will only get worse. But Greenland is also ‘hot’ in another way.
This summer alone, 40 cruise ships visited the relatively small town Ilulissat on the west coast of Greenland. When I was there for 12 days this summer, I saw 6 different ships come and go. One of them had 13 decks, 3,500 passengers and 900 crew on it. To put this into perspective: Ilulissat itself has only a population of close to 5,000. This cruise ship almost doubles the town’s population. Tourism is booming. And Greenland is ‘hot’ in the media too, with Trump recently wanting to buy the country!
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The moon rising on the top of the iceberg. To line up these kinds of shots, our captains need to navigate extremely precisely.
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Greenland, which is part of Denmark, copies the architectural style with their colorful houses.
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A top down shot (by drone) of an ice piece with a bunch of little ‘rivers’. It looks like a snowy landscape.
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Spectacular clouds on a calm evening in Disko Bay.
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Red sails and moody weather: a winning combination. Especially with some rugged icebergs.
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Flying my drone (Mavic Pro 2) from the shore over the icebergs is really magical.
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Rodebay, another settlement about 2 hours sailing from Ilulissat. This little settlement has a population of fewer than 50 people. You can see a lot of sled dogs everywhere around Ilulissat and in all these little villages. They are being used in winter, but in summer they just chill and do nothing. They are not aggressive in general.
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These fishing boats are in a dreamworld of color during the midnight sun season.
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A whale in front of a giant wall of ice. Whales are big, but the ice pieces are huge.
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Photographing from a boat is completely different than ‘traditional’ landscape photography. Even on the sea, you can use your wide-angle lenses and play with foregrounds. But you have to be fast! They come and go quickly and when a foreground presents itself, you only have a second to capture it before it’s gone.
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