Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It’s like going to the moon.
—Jon Krakauer, Mountaineer and Author of Into Thin Air
A year and a half ago while visiting Alaska for the first time, I was taken by the monolithic glaciers. So extreme and so beautiful, I decided then that I had to visit Antarctica, home of the greatest mass of ice in the world!
Antarctica, the fifth largest continent, is a very long way down there. It’s a fourteen-hour flight from Miami to the very tip of Argentina via Buenos Aires, and another two days by cruise ship providing the seas are relatively calm – so you need a pretty compelling reason to make the trek. Mine was seeing blue ice through the lens of my camera. On February 22, 2014, I boarded a plane in Albuquerque, NM, and began my three-week odyssey to the base of the earth. (more…)
For the last four years, I have been shooting exclusively with a 21 mega-pixel Canon 5D with a 70-300mm zoom. It’s a terrific camera, and a terrific lens, and the only equipment I have used for last four years. Using a single piece of equipment has been my pattern for years, for it allows me to become ‘one with my camera’, which is absolutely critical for me. (more…)
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One week from today I depart Santa Fe for Miami, Buenos Aries and then Ushuaia at the very southern tip of Argentina to board a cruise ship for two weeks to the South Shetland Islands and on to the Antarctic Peninsula. (more…)
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For me, landscape reflects the ultimate passage of time. Although Earth is thought to be 4.5 billion years old, almost no portion of it is visible in the landscape today. (more…)
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My first attempts at infusing the feeling of motion into my photographic images originated with my shooting moving objects – cars, trains, people walking or running. (more…)
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