Antarctica - A Photo Essay

Hoopdriver
Hoopdriver Posts: 2,023
edited October 2012 in The cake stop
Antarctica is one of my favourite places on earth. As a magazine writer and photographer I have had the good fortune to travel down there a lot in the past, generally on assignments for Time and National Geographic. This morning when I was sorting through some old files I came upon a series of landscape photos I took along the Antarctic peninsula and South Georgia Island a few years ago; I'd forgotten all about them. And although my website is ostensibly about cycling, I've posted a selection of my favourites.

If you would like to see them they are here:

http://my-bicycle-and-i.co.uk/2012/anta ... oto-essay/
http://www.My-Bicycle-and-I.com

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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Nice ! Very envious of you having been there !
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  • DrKJM
    DrKJM Posts: 271
    I'm hugely jealous. It looks fantastic.
  • Hoopdriver
    Hoopdriver Posts: 2,023
    One of the nice things about Antarctica is that the prettiest places are also the most accessible. I have been all over the continent and I can honestly say that the Antarctic Peninsula is the most spectacular part - a mix of the best of everything Antarctic has to offer, both scenery and wildlife, mountains and icebergs, the lot. And i is the part you can most easily reach, by tour boats and cruises out of Ushuaia, Argentina (in Tierra del Fuego). Go if yo ever get the chance. You'll never regret it.
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  • Flyingbogey
    Flyingbogey Posts: 352
    Amazing pics. I'll revisit them often and show my friends.
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  • bianchimoon
    bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
    very jealous, love the bow of the ships shot, all the red jackets and one green, thanks for sharing those
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  • sufferingpete
    sufferingpete Posts: 524
    Wow - thanks for sharing.
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  • y33stu
    y33stu Posts: 376
    Would love to go there. Thanks for sharing those - very impressive
    Cycling prints
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,808
    Awesome pictures - thanks for the link 8) . Definitely on my 'to do before you die' list.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Ive been there too - pics not as good as yours -

    View from my tent

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    not to be confused with my other favourite "Spot on an Albinos Arse"

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