Commercial and Editorial Photographer » Pole http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog Blog of Photographer Thomas Pickard Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:40:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 POSTCARD | Antarctica http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog/2009/08/postcard-antarctica/ http://www.thomaspickard.com/blog/2009/08/postcard-antarctica/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:00:55 +0000 Thomas Pickard http://thomaspickard.com/blog/?p=485 ]]> Samson Island Antarctica

This photo was taken in early 2004 at the end of my third summer season working in Antarctica.

We were returning from a 7-week stint in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains, the remotest and emptiest place I have ever been. The fact that we spent the entire time living in the field (read: camping), only magnified the experience. The flight back to our station took 3-hours, with a refueling stop at the Samson Island fuel dump. Fuel dump in Antarctica means one thing: a place with loads and loads of 44-gallon drums of Jet A1 fuel, all lashed down some how.

As you can see from the photo, it was one of those incredible postcard perfect days.

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