A veiled September morning sun breaks through the clouds over snow-dusted peaks near the entrance to Kobbefjord, known in Greenlandic as Kangerluarsunnguaq, its light scattered across the fjord waters south of Nuuk.

A boat's foaming wake trails across the still, grey waters of Nuup Kangerlua, some 20 km inland from Nuuk, where steep, snow-streaked mountains rise straight from the fjord under a heavy, overcast summer sky.

Low clouds cling to the granite cliffs of Quassussuaq (Danish: Lille Malene) above the still, green waters of the lake Qallussuaq, known in Danish as Cirkussøen, or "Circus Lake" in English.

A mural of a young woman's face split with a bare skull, framed by branching antlers, painted on a wooden wall of a shed in Nuuk's Nuussuaq district.

A steel tupilak, catching the low evening sun, marks the route to Ajagaq, the municipality's arts workshop, where local artists have carved and shared Greenlandic craft traditions since 2015.

This graffiti painting depicts a steel-and-glass skyline crowding out a small village of colorful traditional houses, both suspended on a loading bar still in progress. Painted in 2020 by Greenlandic artist Inuk Højgaard, the mural speaks to the widening gap between life in Nuuk and in Greenland's smaller communities. Højgaard himself resists calling it a simple critique of the capital's growth.

Traffic moves along the sunlit roads of Eqalugalinnguanut and Issortarfimmut, with the mountain Sermitsiaq to the left and Quassussuaq (Lille Malene) in the middle.

RV Tarajoq is Greenland's flagship fisheries research vessel, operated by the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (Pinngortitaleriffik) on behalf of the Government of Greenland. This ice-strengthened vessel is used to survey fish stocks and map the seabed across Arctic waters. The name means "salt" and is an old Inuit word for the sea itself.

A view of most of Nuuk from the top of Ukkusissaq (Store Malene).

A spring day at Quassussuaq (Lille Malene) with the partly snow-covered Ukkusissaq (Store Malene) in the background.