GENEVA - Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse spent years shooting fast-moving subjects in fast-breaking events – the winning goal in a Europa League soccer clash, the confrontation in an Extinction Rebellion street protest.
“Everybody talks about the melting of the glaciers. But visually how could we show that?” said the father-of-two who works out of Reuters’ Geneva bureau. He decided to pick a selection of old vistas from online public libraries, then head out and take a photograph from the same spots, from the same perspectives. He would juxtapose old and new and show what had changed.
“The Aletsch glacier is 20km long. In two days and a bit of walking I got four different pictures ... The rocks haven’t moved, but the vegetation has changed quite a bit.”He tried to match lighting conditions to get as close a match as possible. “Most of the old pictures were taken in afternoon, or later afternoon. In the 19th century they needed a lot more time to climb. They carried their equipment on horses or donkeys.
It's a pity, this picture cannot slow down Switzerland's melting Glaciers... or turn us back in time to XIX century!
Yeah skeptics, everything is fine, no climate change. 🙄
Lots snow
Take another look mid to end of winter like the photograph.
They've been melting for 20,000 years.
Looks the same
Advance and retreat of the Alpine glaciers during the last glacial cycle
Believe me,it will snow again.
zarkobns One of my favorites from my cam.
It looks virtually the same...
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