Iceland — a land often called a paradise for landscape photographers.

Glaciers break into icebergs, icebergs into diamonds scattered on black sand.

The day I took these photos, a polar bear came ashore; the first in seven years.

Carried from Greenland on melting ice, starving.

It wandered too close to a remote home.

And so, it was put down

From glacier to diamond, beauty is born from loss.

Is this paradise called Iceland truly a paradise for all?