My first time to Antarctica I was shocked and amazed by the beauty and the remoteness of it all. Ice covered everything, making mountains look the same as glaciers, and even the ocean was chocked full of icebergs. The beauty of Antarctica lends itself perfectly to the art of black and white photography. Other than the blue ocean, there is almost no other color that exist there. The penguins are black and white, the ice and snow and clouds are white, and the rock faces that are too steep for ice and snow to gather are black.
So it was my goal to capture some of my time there in black and white. I'll present it here for you.
My monomad challege: Antarctica in Black and White
Mist and fog are always something I look for to add an element of mystery to my landscape photos. Antarctica has no lack of mystery. It is one of the least visited places on earth.
I crouched down, perfectly still, as this gentoo penguin waddles past me. I like shooting up at wildlife so I placed my wide angle camera on the ground tilted up at the passing penguin.
The towers of the Chilean Base are some of the only man-made structures on the entire continent. Ice and reflections in the water add a little depth to the landscape.
A lone bird catches a ride on an iceberg. The saying is true that you only see 10% of the iceberg on the surface. The rest can be seen through the clear water descending down below.
Gentoo penguins take a break on the shoreline after dodging icebergs and leopard seals on their morning hunt for fish.
Penguins can't fly but this one does for a moment!
Light and dark...the base for a good black and white landscape.
A chinstrap penguin, named for the line of dark feathers under its chin, stretches its neck around to take a better look at the unusual visitor (me).
I hope you enjoyed a brief visit to the white continent, Antarctica.