AV News 190 - Novembert 2012
Unfortunately the latter is
much further away and
involves
considerably
more expensive travel!
Apart from the cost, the
only drawback is the
weather - the islands are
exposed to the Furious
Fifties winds of the
Southern Ocean. But it is
worth it.
No amount of study reading or watching nature programmes on television
can prepare one for an encounter with these remote islands. Others have
been there before me and are worth quoting. Two of our excellent guides
during the expedition
Tim and Pauline Carr
write in the introduction
to their beautiful book
about South Georgia,
'Antarctic Oasis':
'South Georgia is a
splendid if forbidding
land of towering, glacier
clad mountains, with a
treacherous storm-torn
coast indented with
sheltered bays. During
the polar summer, the
island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife place to mate and rear their
young. The planet's greatest congregation of seals, penguins and
albatrosses and other birds throng the shores.'
I have found that many
aspects of the work
involved
in
the
preparation of audio
visual sequences have
been very useful in the
field of self-publishing,
having published my
work as photo books
via the online site Blurb:
www.blurb.com.
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