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Inside Scoop: Antarctica

June 30, 2008 by aphriza

I’m still working the Antarctica angle. I just wrote two stories about my time on a windswept, icebound lava plain for the most recent issue of Woods Hole’s magazine, Oceanus. Editor Lonny Lippsett said he thought this might be an opportune time to get into the audio slideshow business, and did I want to give it a try?

One thing led to another and I found myself combing through 1,600 of Chris Linder‘s photos from that week (Dec 10-18, 2007). At first we were talking about maybe a dozen pictures and a short caption spoken by me. But there was so much to say – Chris’s photos caught so much, and reminded me of all the things I didn’t get to write about while I was there. Eventually, I had five and a half minutes of Quicktime video assembled using iMovie. Give it a look and watch me work the Ken Burns effect!

(The version on YouTube loads faster, but the resolution is a lot worse.)

(Image: Chris Linder/WHOI)

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6 Responses

on June 30, 2008 at 10:38 pm | Reply Mark Powell

Nice. Almost makes me wish I was still a researcher.
on July 2, 2008 at 1:45 pm | Reply The Veteran Naturalist

All right! Ken Burns could take a lesson on how to keep his audience’s attention with just still photos. Great shots from Chris and stirring commentary from Hugh. Kudos all around.

VetNat
on July 3, 2008 at 11:19 pm | Reply Da

Besides Earth, Wind, and Fire, what other bands did you catch while you were there?

Those photos are amazing, you can almost feel the struggle that it was to walk. Commentary was superb as well.
on July 31, 2008 at 12:06 pm | Reply Caryl

Nice; photos were great. Walking in that wind had to be tiring.
on August 25, 2008 at 2:17 pm | Reply Anne

Hey Hugh,

Catching up on my reading (read: Procrastinating) and listening. Stunning narration. I liked the photos well enough, but enjoyed your observations and analogies (Christmas shoppers) even more.

Going to AGU this year?

Anne
on September 3, 2008 at 7:31 am | Reply aphriza

Hey Anne,

Thanks for watching/listening – and for your writerly appreciation of the words. (Chris’s pictures are so good it’s hard to compete!)

I doubt I’ll be at AGU this year, either, since my new beat at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is decidedly short on geophysics. I am crossing my fingers about getting out in the field though – details to come. Have fun out there without me!