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Chinstrap Penguin, Antarctica
uploaded by hollygordon_photographer December 18, 2008 at 03:44 pm
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NP! ID: 1973623
Title: Chinstrap Penguin, Antarctica
File Size: 340 × 500 – 76.89 KB
Created: Thu, 12/18/2008 - 3:44pm
Modified: Thu, 12/18/2008 - 3:44pm
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at 16:07 on December 18th, 2008
I went to Antarctic in December 1999 to be able to tell my yet to be born grandchildren where i was when 1999 turned to 2000. Penguins are my favorite critters and I went for them-to see them face to face. While I was there I became totally blown away by the purity and clarity of the air and the landscape...or should I say icescape....our last vestige of untouched earth...and it is melting and becoming polluted... A body of my images debut at the New york Hall of Science in January, 2004. Currently, some of my images are part of an Antarctica installation with the Patchogue Arts Council. I am an environmentally sensitive nature and fine art photographer and continuously searched for penguins positioned for good image-taking. This chinstrap was a most photogenic creature and I captured it in many poses. This is an ecstatic display. While on this journey I photographed, Adelies, Gentoos, Macaronis, Kings, Rockhoppers and Magellenics and will be happy to share them all as well as my Antarctica images to help save our planet. I now have 4 grandchildren and just visited my (oldest, age 5) grandson's kindergarten class to read a story about penguins and do an art project. We've got to start teaching children to protect and respect nature while they are young. You can see more of my photography, writing, information on my two major exhibitions Antarctic: Journey to the Extreme and Galapagos: Face to Face on my website. It's worth the click! www.hollygordonphotographer.com
at 02:15 on December 19th, 2008
Nice photos! Here Here!! Lets hope that our future generations will be able to view and appreciate some of these amazing creatures! Would very much like to visit Antarctica one day to photograph our last true untouched wilderness! Spent the last year in NZ where I've had the privilege of photographing little blue, white-flippered and yellow-eyed penguins as well as many other creatures! The closest thing to Antarctica for me was a visit from a Leopard Seal a few months ago, which landed on a beach near a white-flippered penguin colony - awesome experience :) Happy clicking
Jonathan Harrod
www.flickr.com/truubloo
at 10:56 on December 19th, 2008
Thank you. I spent several week in both Australia and New Zealand in 2000 and photographed the fairy blue too. I want to go back and especiall want to return to Antarctica too but go deeper and stay longer. One of my big fantasies is to get invited to photograph Antarctica and go to McMurdo Station and have ample opportunity to observe and photograph Emperor penguins.
More than 90 percent of the world’s glacial ice is in Antarctica and it is melting at an alarming rate. Global warming is a real threat and we do not see it or really comprehend its seriousness because Antarctica is so far beyond our daily sphere of living. My images provide an intimate connection and I am someone people can readily identifiy with because I am a 'regular' person (sort of) and not a scientist or politician. This little chinstrap is the tip of the iceberg...but what an ambassador he's turning into!
I am a nature photographer who ‘shoots from the heart’. I choose to go where people don’t. Antarctica is way off the beaten path but my images bring Antarctica home. Most people will never cross the convergence or the Drake Passage yet the preservation of this remote region impacts on the ecological well being of the entire world. My photography plants ‘seeds’ to grow more environmentally sensitive and educated people of all ages. Once a teacher, I am still teaching. Nature is my studio and the world is my classroom.
Shutterbug Magazine featured my website and Joe Farace wrote, “Gordon likes to say that she speaks for nature and she does so in a very eloquent way.”
Joe Farace, January 2006 Shutterbug