Saxifraga oppositifolia

This is a stunning image that captures that dramatic landscape beautifully.  Perfect framing.

Sublime composition creating a link with water between the two only coloured things in the image.

Everything seems transient here - even the water between two shapes of ice. 

Excellent composition, the foreground detail is exquisite, and the leading trail between the ice, brings the viewers eyes to the next point of interest, the human element. If it could get even more perfect, it would be with a full reflection of his form. But suffice to say it's a fantastic image as it is.

Best Regards

Alf

Elise,

  Thank you so much for giving both the location and the botanical name.  I just spent a pleasant 15 minutes looking up the plant. Since it is circumpolar I might have some chance seeing it in Northern Canada or Alaska.   At the same time your image shows both the plant and it's rather harsh setting - it always pleases me to know that such organisms survive, so well adapted to their extraordinary environment.  I do wonder what insect might help the plant pollinate.

My only suggestion, photographicly,  would be that if the picture were taken from 18 inches off the ground, the plant could have loomed much bigger in the forground of the image.  I know that sometimes the situation does not allow that but it occurs to me that a closer image of the flowers could be cut into a corner of the photograph.  That used to be quite hard in the days of film but would work easily enough in the digital age we are now in.

My regards,  (actually seeing where you spend your time I should send my warmest regards),

Jerry