From NASA’s State of Flux web page comes the following images:
This is the Pedersen glacier in Alaska. The first picture is from 1917, the second is from 2005.
The photo credit given on the NASA site is: 1917 photo captured by Louis H. Pedersen; 2005 photo taken by Bruce F. Molnia. From the Glacier Photograph Collection, National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology.
I found a USGS site with a longer explanation for these photos as well as lots of other good comparison pictures.
http://www.usgs.gov/global_change/glaciers/repeat_photography.asp
Amazing. I was on the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau in 1998 and was struck by the appearance of striations in the surrounding rock face marking its recent and accelerating recession. Our guide remarked he had watched it drop several meters in just the few short years he’d been there. This was before I was aware of the radical nature of on-coming climate change.
Really striking photo’s Lou, great comparison. The vegetation really grabs the eyes.