Simon and I decided that it would be fun to do do some analog film photography of our trip to Antarctica. I was armed with me my dad’s old Nikon FM, and five rolls of Portra 160 film (of which I used four). Plus two fixed lenses: 28mm/2.8 and 50mm/1.8.
This album contains every photograph that was not obscured by my sticky shutter. Except a few duplicates have been removed, from the few times I hedged my bet on metering, or from unthinkingly repeating subjects on different occasions. See some of the sticky shutter images I like anyway in: McMurdo 2022 in film: lovable rejects.
Minimal digital editing is applied, mainly to reduce white balance issues from the raw scans.
Joseph in the drifts
Around the galley at LDB
Simon's cord
Doesn't quite reach our van
The Boss, snowed in
Ice road
Freshly regroomed, after the bad weather
Goggle selfie
With McMurdo and the line to tour Discovery Hut. This is the one shutter-obscured photo that I cropped
Supplies
Inside Discovery Hut
Seal parts
Inside Discovery Hut
Jared and Mount Erebus
Exercising The Boss
Helped by a "tractor beam"
Mess of McMurdo
From part way up Observation Hill
Jeff and Riccardo on top
Me and Jeff
Mount Erebus
With Castle Rock, and other closer hills
Buildings on the ice
At LDB
Cargo berm
Also at LDB
Spider outside
For a baffle test
Going for a hike
Around the Hut Point loop/arrival heights
Mid hike photo stop
Spider hanging outside
On the day of our Compatibility test
Spider
With Wood for scale
Driving on The Boss
The Boss
Seal
On the broken up sea ice
Spider in the sun
Drawing a crowd on our launch day
Spider and Mount Erebus
Launch lookers lounge
Ice, hills, cllouds
On my final drive back from LDB
Going for a penguin hunt
Looking
Returning empty handed
SPoT
Hoses
Arrival Heights
Dive huts
On dry land now that the sea ice is breaking
Pallets and power liens
Ice wall
At "the transition", from land to the ice road
Icicles
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