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These photos captured through a lens made of 10,000-year-old ice are eerily beautiful — Genius Moments

"My wife was like the first human to ever be shot with a 10,000-year-old lens."
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These photos captured through a lens made of 10,000-year-old ice are eerily beautiful — Genius Moments
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Mathieu Stern is an experimental photographer who traveled to Iceland in search of ice pure enough to use as a camera lens.

After two days of trial and error, Stern was able to mold the ice lens and take a few eerily beautiful pictures and videos.

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Nikolay Nikolov

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