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Penguin Love

Penguin Love

In my travels I have been fortunate enough to see wildlife at its best. What amazes me is how wildlife shows unbridled love. I was in Antarctica which is a life changing experience in itself where I got to see wildlife in all sorts of forms.  I watched whales and their calves together. The way a mother whale teaches its young. I saw Orcas that travel as a pack (family) take care of each other and their young. I have been in Alaska and have seen how grizzlies are with their young. And, as shown in this picture I have seen penguins express their love to each other. Love is pretty damn powerful!

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Bottom Of The world

On The Way to Antarctica - Ushuaia - Argentine

At the very most souterh tip of Argentina is a small and very remote city – Ushuaia. This is the point where you jump to Antarctica from.  It is the southern most tip of the world as we know it.  I spent a week in Ushuaia one day.  Not a lot to do.  So I wandered around and took pictures which something as you know I like to do.  I came upon a small beach with a wrecked boat and another pretty wrecked boat not too far off shore.  So, I shot this shot and a number of close-ups.  I like this one foreground and back ground seem to work well.
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Rusty Texture

Rusty Boat - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Since I did a pattern shot yesterday, why not texture today?  So, here is a rusty art photo.  I love rust and anyone following this blog knows that.  This is rust from a ship in Argentina.  Buenos Aires seems to be a good city for rust.  This was found on an old boat being scrapped.

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Blue Ice and Water

Iceberg and Water

Still getting my feet back on the ground.  Amazing what ten days away can set you back on getting things done. This is an image I shot in Antarctica. Sometimes you just see the shot that is part of a much bigger subject. This is just a small portion of a large iceberg. I loved the way nature makes its own art and is evident here.

 

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Penguin Love

One of the benefits of traveling to Antarctica so many times is that you get a large library of Penguin Images.  My library is huge.   Penguins are very cool and very funny.  If you sit on the ground there they will come up to you and sit with you They are every curious and they are always busy.  I love watching these little guys as they are always on a mission or a honey do list.  But, they also find time to love.  Here’s a cute couple.

Don’t forget the next ten days I’ll be in Death Valley.  While I will try to post images here, you can follow the workshop activities at www.podas.info

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Berg

Big Iceberg

Ahhh…Antarctica…..I have a love for this place. It’s a life changing environment with natural beauty and a light unlike any other place on earth. It’s a dynamic environment, especially for photographers. It can’t be clichéd. An image taken one day won’t be there the next. This iceberg was huge. I have hundreds of iceberg images. This one stands out. You can’t imagine the size of some of these. They are as big as cities they float aimlessly around the oceans and eventually melt away or break into smaller pieces. So, you take one of these beasts and then throw light on it and you get images like this.

 

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Purple Ice

Purple Ice - Antarctica

This has been a weird few days of weather here in Indianapolis. We had 70 degree weather and 24 hours later we had snow and ice. While not significant it got me thinking cold again. So, today I present purple ice. This is an iceberg shot in Antarctica. The sun didn’t really set when I was there, it just kind of change to this magnificent purple – orange glow and lasted for a few hours. A totally incredible things to witness. Hope you enjoy this shot. You can see more of my Antarctica images by CLICKING HERE.

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Rusty Ladder

Deception Island - Whale Oil Tank

Imagine my surprise when visiting Antarctica to stumble upon rusty things. I love rust and decay and here I was at the bottom of the world at an old whaling station and there was rust and lots of it. So I went crazy and shot a lot of photos. One of them is above of a ladder going up a tank that held whale oil. You’ll see more from this series over time here on this blog. What I remember most is that about ten minutes after I shot this photo I went swimming not one but twice. Swam out to an iceberg. Very stupid thing to do. On the swim back to shore my limbs stopped functioning. The cold water there will zap you and kill you quickly. Makes for great stories now, but I will never forget how cold it was. This was photographed on Deception Island.

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Not Very Happy

One thing I haven’t posted much of here on this blog is people and animals.  I am going to have to change that and today I present a mad animal.  This si a seal shot during a cold blowing snow morning in Antarctica.  These were big animals and the sounds they made were unearthly.  Anyway this guy wasn’t too happy that we were interrupting his nap.

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The Long Haul

 

The Long Haul

 

It was a cold day when we set out to reach the top of a small mountain in Necko Harbor, Antarctica. It was one of those days with kind of white out conditions. There was no defining horizon just human beings in bright yellow parkas   white The view was spectacular and worth the long climb. The way back down was really fun as we all just sat down on the snow and slid all the way to the bottom and it was a long way. Just another great memory from a great trip.