Antartica Photography 2005

Convoluted Iceberg, Antarctica. December, 2005
Canon 5D with 24-105mm f/4L IS lens @ ISO 200
In the days following my return from Antarctica., as I worked on my files, I thought about the text that I would write to accompany the images on the web site. I regretted that I was not a poet, because none of the prose that my mind conjured up as I loaded files, processed, cropped and printed images, was able to express how profoundly this trip to – what some have called theCrystal Desert– had affected me.
I have shot in the Canadian Arctic, Iceland, the Sierra, and the Rockies in winter, but these were totally dissimilar experiences to Antarctica. There is a quality to the air and the light that makes Antarctica like no other place on earth. No one is unaffected by the difference. It is that profound.
In this brief essay I will display some of my photographs from the 10 days that we spent near and on the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. I will also attempt to ...