TITLE: Svalbard White Ice

This series ''Svalbard White Ice'' enhances the elegant lights of the midnight sun during summer, and the gentle shapes of this fragile environment where polar bears are patrolling around in search for their next meals.

When covered with snow, glaciers look so welcoming. An empty space asking to be discovered and explored; but what lays underneath can lead to serious danger. Svalbard is covered of 60% of ice. Glaciers are unstable and a lot of knowledge and confidence is needed to traverse from a place to another when walking on these hundred of meters thick ice.

Crossing on the glacier tops by skis or snowmobiles in Svalbard is quite a unique experience. We are surrounded by some of the most amazing landscapes we can find on earth. It is a hostile environment that only few people have the chance to witness and explore.
Lucky enough to live this kind of moments, I bring untouched landscapes to life, showing what some can never see.

AUTHOR: Virgil Reglioni (France)

Virgil is from a small French town between Lyon and the Swiss border.

In June 2011, with nothing more than a bag on his back, Virgil set out to explore the world and discover his passion for the great outdoors and photography.
Throughout this time, he has lived in 7 different countries: Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Iceland, Norway, including Svalbard, in the high Arctic, and visited more than 38 others across five continents.

Virgil concentrates mainly on Arctic Landscape and Night Photography. It allows him to express his inner self and invite others to share in the spectacular and unyielding power of mother nature.

''Patience and creativity are all you need.''

Virgil is self-taught and believes in self-guided learning along with mutual knowledge sharing. His unending passion for photography and the outdoors pushes him to improve constantly, making photography part of his everyday life.
NorthernLights are a unique feature of his photography style and lead him to build robust and constructive compositions around them.

"A great aurora image is a great image even without aurora."

The photos you find in his gallery are the result of thousands of hours outside in snowstorms, strong winds, extreme temperatures, and a tremendous amount of time spent waiting on nature for that precise, extraordinary moment. Really often, the aurora is the wow effect of the photograph, the icing on the cake.
Virgil is always oriented on understanding his surroundings, finding the best angles for his compositions, and finding the right orientation to sublime the light in relation to his chosen subjects.