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20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Perpetual Motion near Bifrost

The photo depicts the moss and stones that lined a small river that flowed into a valley near Bifrost. The image shows the riverbank in textured undulating shadows, almost like a magma wave, which felt very Islandic yet alien and abstract too.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2022
Date Uploaded: 10.2022
Photo Location: Bifrost, Iceland
Copyright: © Frederik Boumeester