'Monster iceberg' makes 3,000-tonne ship look tiny (picture)

A picture of an iceberg in the Antarctic appeared to make a 3,000-tonne ship look tiny - when in fact the block of ice was only 6ft above sea level.

A clever camera trick was used to make it seem as if the 'giant' iceberg dwarfed the ship as they appeared to be next to each other.

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But because the iceberg is in the foreground of the picture, the colourful ship seems like a small toy - because it is 600ft away from the camera.

The impressive photography skills make the iceberg look disproportionately large and therefore appear to be much bigger than the ship.

Although the iceberg is only a mere six feet above sea level, there is another 50ft of it underwater.

The vessel is a research ship exploring Paradise Bay and Neko Harbour in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Photographer Rick Du Boisson, 65, braved the freezing conditions to capture the deceiving shot.

He also managed to capture the pretty setting with 'over-under' shots - so it is possible to see both underwater and above water at the same time.

Mr Du Boisson, who is from Gainesville in Florida, USA, and also works as a chemist, snapped another iceberg in the Antarctic Peninsula where penguins were diving from.

He said: "The icebergs in all their varied shapes are quite amazing - the intensity of the blue colour is quite incredible.

"The tabular icebergs from glaciers are often 70 to 80 feet above water, with several hundred feet below and can be miles long!

"The water was very calm in the bay, allowing for beautiful reflections."

He explained that he used a wide angle lens to make the iceberg appear to be much larger than the vessel.

Mr Du Boisson added: "A characteristic of wide angle lenses is to make foreground objects look somewhat disproportionately large; this is especially true of the extreme wide angle fisheye lenses.

"In this case as I got closer to the iceberg, which was only 6ft high above sea level, it appeared to be much larger than the ship which was probably about 600ft away.

"In this instance I was using a 15mm fisheye lens.

"This extreme wide angle allowed me to be sufficiently close to the iceberg to have a chance of seeing the whole of the underneath of the iceberg."