Antarctica Lecture Series

Floating Digital Workshops in partnership with Explorer’s Corner

JUNE 2-14 2005

Extreme Digital Photography author and expert photographer, Jonathan Chester, invites you to join him for an 11 day floating digital photography workshop and shoot to the Western Spitzbergen Archipelago 400 nautical miles East of the northern Greenland coast. Our small group of photographers will have the opportunity each day to capture images of the rugged mountains, sweeping tundra, ice caps and glaciers, of this true “High Arctic” archipelago, only 600 miles from the North Pole. This is one of the “spots” on the map that is hard to get to, seen by only a few, is beautiful and pristine and can offer no-place-like-it-on-earth for photography. Experience seabirds thronging the cliffs and shores, and enjoy the thrilling antics of whales and dolphins at sea, while seals and walruses haul out on the rocks and ice floes. Enjoy the thrill of sighting reindeer, Arctic fox and the amazing polar bear in the wild.
Workshop Sessions in the evenings and at other selected times will be set aside to give time to download and edit our day’s shoot. Then we will have a video projection critique session of the best of our day’s work. This routine will be combined with formal and informal sessions on digital camera operation, shooting techniques, workflow, the digital darkroom, photoshop, shooting raw, archiving and output options from making prints with an Epson photo printer to learning to make keynote presentations .

For more details go to Explorers Corner or email me Jonathan Chester.

Download a brochure about the adventure here

Polarbear Mom and Cub . Other expeditions to Alaska, the Galapagos and Australia are on the drawing board for the future however. If you do have questions regarding my guiding experience, or trips that I have lead in the past, please feel free to contact me.

Two books that I highly recommend if you are planning to go on a trip to either polar region are:

Lonely Planet Antarctica: A Survival Kit - by Jeff Rubin. From the makers of the famed guidebook series. As the publishers note, "Since the usual information found in guidebooks, such as listings of the best restaurants and hotels doesn't apply for Antarctica, this unique guide is filled instead with an accessible collection of Antarctic information that will interest armchair travelers as well as actual visitors."

Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife - by Tony Soper and Dalfia Scott. An indispensable guide on the denizens of this polar region.