Mid Winter in Antarctica
We are past mid-winter now.
Mid-winter day is the premiere holiday in Antarctica. The various stations will send greetings to each other to celebrate the middle of the “longest night.”
Special mid-winter dinner celebrations were held at Scott Base and McMurdo, in which the chefs went all out to put on a suitable feast.
We have finally had a few good aurora displays. I filled up about 60Gigs of hard drive space with photos in one afternoon when I was out at Black Island.
Here are a few photos from the last few weeks…
floodlights pointing straight up in the air.
The cross on top is the memorial marker to Robert Scott and his men.
the start of a time-lapse sequence to capture the galaxy moving across the sky...
I would have actually preferred dark skies. But the auroras looked pretty good too.
in the background.
The streaks of light in the sky are satellites passing overhead.
fly here in winter). I stood still there for about 10 minutes to get a time-lapse photo
sequence of the aurora with me in it.
The glow in the sky is from a combination of the sun and the moon behind a cloud just
to the right of Erebus. An aurora is also on the right of the picture.
over a period of a couple of hours.
Notice how celestial south pole is only slightly offset from the top of the tower.
The green bits in the sky are frm some auroras that passed through.
Do you ever get bored of those fantastic auroras and other beautiful things up there in the sky
I certainly not.
THanks for amazing pictures
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I never get tired of looking at the beautiful photos you take husband!
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WOW. What an undertaking!!!!! I'm so glad that you're doing this. Being a semi professional arctic photographer myself and a time-lapser I am getting to live vicariously through you. I have done most of my work in the Northwest Territories and Northern Ontario Canada. I'm absolutely inspired with your work. I can also understand the frustrations of working in the extreme cold and doing time-lapse out in the elements. I'm really looking forward to seeing your work. Thank you for bringing this magical world to all of us who can't get down there to see it for ourselves.
CHEERS.
Morgan
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I mark papers - children under 12 writing each year about Scott - I do hope they watch The Frozen Planet, it is a truly wonderful program, takes my breath away its so awe inspiring.
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