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February 24 2010

Link U tube- mesmerising and moving art making as theatre- let it load first before hitting play

This video shows the winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent,” Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II.

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9am

Antarctica 24 Sea lions in their wallow Otaria flavescens

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8am

February 23 2010

Antarctica 23 Young Antarctic Fur Seals Arctocephalus gazella

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7am

February 22 2010

Antarctica 22 Black-Browed Albatross returning to Colony Thalassarche melanophris

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February 19 2010

Although there remains a mountain of research from multiple institutions about the reality of climate change, the public has grown uneasy. What’s real? In my view, the climate-science community should convene its top experts — from places like NASA, America’s national laboratories, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology and the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre — and produce a simple 50-page report. They could call it “What We Know,” summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language that a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes.

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from Thomas Friedman in NYTimes

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11am

Antarctica 21 Landscape 5/10 the vast ‘amphitheatre near Baily Head just outside the caldera of deception Island. I think the last eruption was in 1960. A challenging landing due to the steep exposed beach. Images of that another time.

This image illustrates how in some places the penguins, more or less, are the landscape. In this case a wide ranging chinstrap colony pygoscelis antarcticus.

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February 18 2010

Antarctica 20 Landscape 4/10 Petermann Island near Booth Island and the Lemaire Channel ( 65 deg 10 min S, 64 deg 10 min W)

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8am

February 17 2010

Antarctica 19 Landscape 3/10 Steeple Jason, West Falklands

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February 16 2010

link - ok I am a sucker for abandoned buildings and abandoned mental asylums even better.

here is the link to 10 Most Incredible Abandoned Mental Asylums. Images from various sources are on the site.

These are in the UK and I am sure will reward the keen photographer with even more great images …… (your mission should you choose to accept it)

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8am

Antarctica 18 Landscape 2/10

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7am

February 15 2010

Recording audio with your video DSLR, Part I By Juan Pons

Here is a link to new piece by Juan Pons on audio with more to come. It gives an indication of the extra effort that is required to get good sound although there are a few different options.

Incidentally at the end of this month my wife and myself were going to be joining Juan for a Yellowstone in Winter workshop. As it turned out my mothers illness meant we had to pull out and Juan was very creative and understanding in helping us find someone to replace us as the timing was quite late. I hope we can get to Yellowstone with him another time. Bison in the snow seemed a very exciting prospect and we had figured we had the gear from Antarctica so why not. Wild Nature Tours.

4pm

Antarctica 18 Landscape 1/10 Petermann Island near Booth Island and the Lemaire Channel ( 65 deg 10 min S, 64 deg 10 min W)

The utterly wonderful landscape was my biggest surprise of this trip and is what in the end will probably take me back again. This is on one of the little islands on the peninsula that in itself I would happily spend a week photographing in different lights. For me it epitomises the utter wildness of Antarctica and the little penguin slogging through the snow on the right hand side says something about who, if anyone, is master of this world.

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February 14 2010