Caboose

Every once in a while I get an email asking to use my photos. The first was from Satan’s Penguins (their own website seems to have vanished), a Swedish heavy-metal band.

They ended up using several of my Antarctic pictures on the cover of their album “Birds of Darkness“. The link’s to a review (found by a Google search today) that mentions “On the front cover, four shrouded penguins stand against the sunset.”, that would be these penguins:

(There are actually five penguins, the third from the left isn’t just very fat)

I’ve also provided photos for some educational activities in various places and a book about Greece published by the Danish Geografforlaget.

I was glad to hear that the RRS Ernest Shackleton has reached Halley at last.

They didn’t make it last year, due to exceptionally heavy sea ice near Halley. This meant that the usual supplies of fuel couldn’t be delivered to the base and they were on their emergency year’s supply. If the Shack hadn’t got there this year the base was going to have to be shut down.

Even though it’s now years since I left the place I still have friends working there this summer, and a certain emotional attachment to it as well.

Five years ago today I waved goodbye to Grimsby, as well as to my family and set off for two years in Antarctica.

It really doesn’t seem that long.

Might scan in some of the photos later, if I can find them.