ANTARCTIC DREAMS
MOVING OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE
Beyond words. Beyond my imagination. Was I dreaming?
In 2014 I had an amazing adventure to Antarctica. Only three weeks before departure, I was asked to replace an instructor who was unable to go. Lucky me! The tour started in Chile, and from there we flew to Antarctica rather than crossing the Drake Passage by ship. We photographed along the Antarctic Peninsula for five days, and I made 10,000 frames. The shooting conditions were challenging, as we were often photographing from our moving zodiacs or ship, which necessitated insurance frames. I photographed without a tripod, and with little time to deliberate on each composition. Handholding with two cameras around my neck, one with a wide-angle ...
Get Light on the Landscape now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
