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5 t h . o c t . 2 0 0 7
a r t i s t i
c l i c e n c e . . . !
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yesterday
i was on observations all day, providing
meteorological info to the dash 7 aircraft
at punta arenas, tierra del fuego - they
decided to give it a go to get down and end
the winter, but had to turn around and go
back half way through because a gale had
sprung up here. so i spent a lot of
hours in the forecaster's office and
inevitably took some photos from the hoar
frost encrusted window. each of these
photos was taken at the same time from the
same window, then i've altered the colour
balance, contrast, and brightness of
each.... oh, and the dash made it in
on the second attempt today, along with two
of the four twin otters - winter is
officially over. in fact, i will take
this opportunity to say that if anyone ever
wants to send me anything, now or in the
next couple of months is the time to do
it. thanks in advance! the
address to send to is: |
rob
webster
rothera
research station
c/o
british antarctic survey office
stanley
falkland
islands
F1QQ
1ZZ
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a slightly
apocalyptic (if that's not too much of an oxymoron)
view from the nice warm, normal office
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a blurred view of
often-photographed-in-focus admiral's house, some of
the amazing hoar frost patterns visible.
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another boiling
sky-armageddon, but a very beautiful one in my
opinion. you can perhaps imagine the intense
heat of the event starting to contort and crack the
bullet-proof bunker glass...
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a
simple sun-through-frosted-glass, showing up the
microscopic furrows in the glass where the frost
grows.
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4 t h . o c t . 2 0 0 7
f i r s
t p l a n e s
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12th
october, the official end of the winter, as we
witnessed the arrival of two Canadian-flown,
US-owned aircraft (a basler dc3 and a twin otter)
landed at our partially snow covered runway en route
to the South Pole. they stayed for friday
night, bearing gifts - an array of superbly fresh
fruits, including pineapples, one of the foodstuffs
that i've missed most in the last 8 months. We
helped them to refuel and after a quick change of
landing gear from wheels to fixed skiis on the twin
otter on a stunningly beautiful and calm saturday,
they took off bound for the southern extremity of
the globe, a mere 10 hour flight from here.
enough of my words, here are some pics: |
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one
of the canadian planes (the dc3) leaving for the
south pole.
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tris
getting back into the tower and into
flight-following and general communications mode for
summer aircraft operations.
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stunning
sunset last night after a brilliant saturday with
good skiing and skijouring (being towed by a skiidoo
on the huge flat top of the piedmont in beautiful
powder snow).
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