Antarctica

We're working in the studio now. I'll be posting pictures. Check this space...

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We boarded the Laurence M. Gould for our journey back on December 23, 2006. Going back through the Gerlache Passage was even more exciting and beautiful than coming the other way. If you look ba...

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On the last full day we were at Palmer Station, I wanted to go out in the Zodiac one last time. Art demurred. I think he was looking forward to getting on the Gould and heading home. I wanted t...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2007/01/last-day-at-old-palmer.html

Dear Friends, I`m travelling in Chile, on the slow route home. I have many great photos yet to post so watch this space sometime after January 5th, 2007. Art and I took many photos in the Gerlach...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-to-come.html

We are leaving Palmer Station today, Saturday, December 23, for our four day boat ride on the Laurence M. Gould back to Punta Arenas, Chile. A bittersweet ending, leaving this beautiful place. ...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/summer-solstice-leaving-palmer.html

On old Palmer, which is now an island, due to the retreat of the glacier, and the former site of Palmer Station, there is both an ice arch and also an ice cave. We posted pictures of the ice a...

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In a land without green plants the rocks become stark, the lichens vivid. Especially as the snow melts off the glacier rubble, it exposes beauty in the patterns of lichens, moss and the ro...

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I figured out how to save the glacier! I'm going to turn it into glass. I actually managed to make a small glass sculpture in the Palmer Station lab using exactly the process I had proposed wit...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/glass-casting-in-antarctica.html

As you know from David's last post, my extreme age necessitates certain pauses, expecialy after slogging through the long hours demanded by a slavedriver like him! He made me get up to photogra...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/between-breaksaerobatic-macrofauna-art.html

The other night, an announcement went out that a rare King penguin had been sighted on Torgensen Island, just across Arthur Harbor. I had been up on the glacier videoing Mount William, but at d...

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Striped Heart Art brought camera equipment, including his new Nikon D-200, the world's most complicated camera. We have strobe lights and a bloac backgroud. In our freezer container, now named...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/ice-photo-studies.html

Chinstrap penguins Our master computer tech, Curt Smith sent these pictures. He and a small group of Palmerites went camping on Jacob's Island. I thought they were crazy goin...

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Our sous chef Shawn Strange has written this entry: The smell of turpentine reminds me of my mother. I find it oddly familiar these fond thoughts of a toxic vapor pop into my mind just as s...

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Yesterday, which was Thursday, December 7, 2006, Art was feeling better so we chased after some ice. In the early morning we went out to the Arthur Harbor shore,the north side of Palmer Station...

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The ice near Palmer Station is in constant motion, changing every minute. In the following pictures, I use time-lapse photography to show the live flow of the ice. If you watch long enough, th...

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Just so you don't think the weather is always beautiful here, I shot these pictures of our snowy morning, last Monday. After the snow poured in, the wind picked up and brought a load of newly c...

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Don't let the blue sky fool you. Last Friday the weather closed in and we haven't been out in a boat since. that is not to say that is isn't extremely beautiful without the sun, but it was too ...

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Finally, I found a way to post these pictures. I have posted them on Flickr, a Yahoo feature and the editor can transfer over the images to this posting on Blogger. It's a pain and I can't see...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/eastern-shore_04.html

We took the boat out on Friday and got some great pictures of iceberg shapes. They are so wild and sculptural. Unfortunately, I am not able to upload any pictures now for some reason. I'm hoping ...

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Nature as Art, Art as Nature, Geo/Animal Contrasts. Color/Form, Daggers/Puff Turquoise and Jade - No that's Ice! Serene/Severe Fluff/Rough Intimate/Infinte The Intrepid Sculptor,...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/12/way-down-underover.html

Last night I walked to the top of the glacier behind Palmer Station. The view at the top was incredible. This is certainly the most beautiful place I have ever been. In one sense, being at the t...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/glacier-walk.html

The mission here is to capture the textures of the ice, both photographically and also with molding material in order to recreate those textures back home in the studio, using the lost wax proce...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/ice-studies-two.html

Please look again at my posts for the Gerlache Passage and the Neumayer Passage. I added several great shots to each post. I can hardly convey the beauty of those parts of the trip. No trip to A...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/penguin-dolphins-and-comments.html

Today I wanted to write about our weather room. This little place, Palmer Station, is a hub of communications and monitoring equipment. In another post I will show some of the scientific experime...

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Thanksgiving was postponed a day at Palmer Station due to the arrival of the National Geographic cruise ship, the Endeavor. Yesterday (Friday) was gray all day until we sat down for dinner at abo...

http://davidruth.blogspot.com/2006/11/thanksgiving-on-ice.html