Photos were made during a expedition cruise south of the Antarctic Circle.  I have limited my selection to images that illustrate abstract iceberg shapes, especially ones with cobalt stripes.

Antarctica: Playground of the Gods

On an expedition cruise to Antarctic traveling south of the Antarctic Circle, I saw the most amazing icebergs with intense cobalt blue and aqua stripes.  Fascinated with the calligraphic qualities of the lines defining the shape of these huge structures, I made photographs from different angles and from different distances to form abstract patterns.  

Antarctica is the "sculpture garden of the Gods" displaying an awesome variety and highly imaginative shapes.  But all of the icebergs are huge, so the scale also contributes the their profoundly overwhelming beauty.  I am working on a series of paintings based on this vision, but I present a sampling of my photographs in this collection.

Blue Stripes: Antarctic Icebergs

Etchings, Drawings,of these magnificent, endangered animals are important to me.  The intaglio prints were created at Crown Point Press in San Francisco unless otherwise noted.  While I am primarily an abstract landscape painter, I love the technical involvement of intaglio printmaking and the chance to draw...etchings are all about draftsmanship.

Intaglio Prints of Wildlife

While the more frequent depictions of the Aurora Borealis show predominant greens, other colors are evident such as purples and pinks.  I spent hours in a cold, windy mountain pass photographing the Icelandic skies.

Purple and Pink Auroras

I was fortunate to see the Aurora for two nights during a trip to Iceland.  Unforgettable! Magnificent! But more than green...I saw reds, purples, blues shimmering across the black sky and reflecting colors on the clouds. (A small percentage of people see all the colors because their retinas don't "burn" out.  I am one of them.)  I did a series of Aurora paintings.  Here are reds.

Reds in the Aurora Borealis

All the colors are there, dancing across the windy, cold skies as I watched the Aurora Borealis for two memorable nights in Iceland.

Blue and Green Auroras

A series of photographs exploring the inner worlds of flowers and plants using my 110 mm macro lens.  Gardens are peaceful places full of discoveries in very small places.

A Walk in the Garden: Inner Worlds

Climate change is an important issue facing our world today.  We may be at a major inflection point beyond which weather dynamics on our earth are significantly altered.  My photographic series "Folding Clouds" is a multi media interpretation of these changes.

Roberta Jean Smith