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A fortnight after the 21 June winter solstice in Antarctica, the crew at Concordia Research Station are slowly welcoming the return of sunlight. This photo was taken by ESA-sponsored medical doctor Nick Smith on 1 July at noon.
The 12-member crew at Concordia, located at the mountain plateau called Dome C, have spent the last few months in complete darkness: the sun disappeared in May and will not be fully visible again until mid-August. This image of high noon signals the beginning of the end of winter on the remote continent.
Confined in extreme conditions, the crew at Concordia – one of three Antarctic stations inhabited all year long – find solace in traditions. Midwinter often includes well wishes from other Antarctic and sub-Antarctic stations as well as communal projects. The crew this year brewed their own beer to mark the occasion.
As well as offering around nine months of complete isolation, Concordia’s location at 3233 m altitude means the crew experience chronic hypobaric hypoxia – lack of oxygen in the brain. Temperatures can drop to –80°C in the winter, with a yearly average of –50°C. The temperature at the time of this image was –65°C, with wind chill at about –80°C.
As a station set in Earth’s harshest space, Concordia is an ideal stand-in for studying the human psychological and physiological effects of extreme cold, isolation and darkness.
Nick is working on seven experiments, looking in general at the effects of isolated, confinement and extreme environment, analogous to a lunar or martian station, on mindfulness, cognition, risk taking, decision making, immune systems, stress, eye health, sexual security, and social dynamics. He has collected many samples and questionnaires over the past nine months.
The crew are headed for the home stretch of their Antarctic residency which will bring not only sunlight but also fresh crew. Researchers arriving for the summer campaign means a lot of preparatory work for the current crew.
In the next few weeks, they will need to plough the skiway, remove snow around the station, deep clean, and in the case of Nick, prepare his samples for return to Europe.
Follow the adventures at Concordia on the Chronicles from Concordia blog.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–N. Smith
Neither the best time nor the best conditions for visiting Horseshoe Bend, but... it's when I happened to be passing through Page, and I don't get up that way very often.
At least I thought to cart my wide angle along.
Noon @ East Point
A sunny day at East Point with Stormclouds on the Horizon. Seen from the Darwin Military Museum, Jan. 2016
12:03 to be exact, the sun is coming up due south 2 degrees over the horizon that's all we get until the winter solstice on the first day of winter then it slowly goes back the other direction.
As for the road conditions this is a good day, fun fact some of our roads are smoother in the wintertime when covered in snow!
I have been waiting to get this shot with the clouds to demonstrate the low sun angle and the winter sunrise in the southern sky.
Even a bonus with the Alaskan range showing just over the bridge in the background.
For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it...
…But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as "the younger brothers of Creation." We say humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn-we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way they live. The teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.
-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Skywoman Falling. pg. 9
(Esta foto hoy adquiere para mi un valor diferente. Pero mantengo el comentario que escribí aquella fría mañana de enero, hace 8 meses)
Magín, no te olvidaremos fácilmente.
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High Noon
y yo, sólo ante el peligro.
Repoker de Ases en el Puerto de A Coruña en una gélida mañana de domingo.
¡Ole por nosotros!
Sugerencia Musical:
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noon at ty newydd---80072 climbs away from glyndyfrdwy towards llangollen as the dee valley stretches into the distance
Anyone that has ever visited Signal Hill in the summer time in St.John's, NL, Canada has surely heard the 'voice' of this gun at noon time.
A well-known rock formation with 12 m high granite pillars and a breathtaking view of the Giant Mountains.
1958 Leica M2 with Leica Summarit-M 2.5/35mm on ORWO N75 at box speed (320) in Kodak XTOL stock for 8.5 mins @ 20C.
Took the new ORWO N75 out to shoot on Tuesday in Terenure, inner South Dublin, loaded in the M2. See the previous shot for more info.
So far I like this film!