Murray Fredericks is an Australian photographer whose photographic works of Australian salt flats and Greenlandic ice sheets are subtle, beautiful bodies of work. He plays along with the exotic light shows he encounters in these remote locations, and the results are phenomenal.
The image of his that initially caught my eye was the photograph of a sundog, a kind of a halos created when light and ice crystal interact in the atmosphere. They tend to appear as two subtly-colored patches of light to the left and right of the sun, and can occur with mock suns and other sorts of parhelia phenomena. Solar and lunar optical phenomena are common in deserts and near the poles, and have been well recorded by explorers over the centuries. The polar regions of ice fields are deserts, and what may initially appear to be a white, colorless, blindingly bright and mind numbingly dark environments always blossoms over time. After a few days in these strange lands, men report seeing radical shades of violet, green, blue and gold in the ice and snow, and taking great pleasures in watching the sundogs and halos bob and vacillate in the sky.
Svalbard by Sea 