Great Shot (though a little cold)

[don]

I could not remember the name or find the 'Tulip picture thread . . .

A century before the makers of Frozen Planet, the photographer Herbert Ponting travelled with Captain Scott to Antarctica. The British Antarctica Expedition, 1910-1913, was to become a tragedy when Scott and his party died after reaching the South Pole second to their rival Roald Amundsen. Yet before they set out for the centre of the frozen continent they explored, and photographed, its spectacular sights. Ponting took powerful, touching shots of penguins, seals and the expedition's dogs and horses. This picture – Grotto in an Iceberg – taken from an ice cave, is Ponting's most famous shot. Scott’s ship is in the distance; Ponting, deep in the ice grotto, sees its swirling serpentine contours and ovoid aperture. It is like the frozen eye of a frost giant spying on the explorers. That frozen giant would get them. This photograph is one of the most beautiful ever taken of Antarctica, but it is forever tinged by death. In festive terms, this is In the Bleak Midwinter

[lektrode]

Re: Great Shot (though a little cold)

somewhat oddly, but quite reminiscent of a frozen version 'the green room' at the banzai pipeline -
to the point of wondren just exactly _how_ that ice formation happened???


Hawaii Banzai pipeline in December


home of the truly world famous Pipe Masters surf event:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billabong_Pipeline_Masters

tho the surfs been a bit slack (so far) this year, the prize purse is Krankin (over 3/4mil):
http://www.triplecrownofsurfing.com/

[oddlots]

Re: Great Shot (though a little cold)

Looks like you've started a new thread Don... never mind the old one.

Here's a site I love:

http://www.retronaut.co/

Great for an occasional wander...

[lektrode]

Re: Great Shot (though a little cold)

look... to some of us, a great shot (of something cold) is a surefire way to snag some eyeballs...
and to some of us, the shape of that particular ice formation reminds us of one of the few places that particular natural phenom occurs - but in liquid form...

and the topic was as much about photos as anything else, so....

so eye still have a question about just how ice could get shaped like that ?

unless they had a brief and sudden spell of... global COOLING?