In just over two weeks the sun will be gone for four months. We are down to about 6 hours of sunlight per day now.

Last night I went out looking for Auroras, but did not see much. There were some faint ones behind Mount Erebus, and Erebus itself was lighting up the smoke it was pouring out with the hot lava in the crater. (See the small red glow to the left of the picture)




This summer I did a lot of my footage in High Dynamic Range, a technique where you take multiple exposures of the same subject at different settings to give a more dynamic result.
Here's a quick example from some of the footage I have been processing recently...

This is a normal photo taken on an overcast day of Robert Scott's original hut with McMurdo in the background...

Because of the relatively flat light, the brightness of the snow, and the darkness of the volcanic rock, the camera can't quite handle it all very well.

Here's the same scene using HDR techniques, it is a lot closer to what I was actually seeing with the naked eye at the time...