At the moment I am spending my third winter at Palmer Station in Antarctica, and it's just as stunning as my first visit.

Palmer is the smallest of the three US research stations in Antarctica, easily dwarfed by it's surroundings.


Ice bergs can be found in the area just about year round, and like the landscape their size is hard to scale.





Sometimes if you follow the trails left by the Penguins it will lead you to think them Mt. Climbers.



It is a place I am glad to call my home for months at a time.

Oh yea, your second image is fantastic. Very dramatic looking bergs. We passed by Palmer station in January, in fact of few of you good folks came on board and gave a fantastic presentation. Keep the images coming. Its an amazing place!

Absolutely keep the photos coming! How cool to log on tonight and see cool photos from Antarctica. Seriously, that's the absolute beauty of photography and the internet-- it enables us to easily see places we'd never otherwise see. I look forward to seeing more posts. Not sure if I'll ever make it to Antarctica but I'm still curious. What are your living conditions like? Photos?

It is an amazing place, given this is a forum about Landscapes I'll try and keep the stuff with the wildlife to a minimum though I may end up just posting something up in the Journeys section. As I sit here it's hard to imagine any place in the world that is more magical, it is a place that needs to be examined and the more you look the more you see.

WOW!!! What an amazing place to be! Love the 3rd shot in this series. Colors, textures, and shapes all work very well. Love it!

Awesome photos!! Please keep them coming!!

Ron

Amazing. How did you get to live there? What are you doing and how much "free" time do you have for photography?

Wow! Way cool. I am looking forward to your answers to the above questions. Thanks for sharing and am hoping for more photos.
Cheers,
Colby
PS
I'm off to check out your blog.

Well I work here as a contractor for Raytheon who is the current contract holder with the NSF for the USAP. As long as I'm not in the middle of fixing stuff I get chances almost all the time to take pictures of stuff from station.

Sadly my blog is very out of date, a casually of being too busy this past few weeks here. Hopefully in the next few days I'll get a chance to update the blog and get some new photos up here.

Maybe in another life i will get there your 2nd pic of the berg is awsome.

steve.

beautiful photos and a truly enviable experience. would love to have that scenery at my backdoor! and the penguins and seals! thanks for sharing.

Went out for some boating around station yesterday, and found this really cool berg.

I think what would be interesting is to know what you do down there. What is your job? how many hours per day do you work? How much free time do you have? Do you have internet? Etc.

Sam

I am the station's electrician, work about 10hrs a day. Evenings and Sundays are my time, mostly. Our internet connection for the station is like the standard DSL you can get in the USA for like $30. Right now there are 18 people living on station and that will jump in September to near 40.

The winds yesterday were pretty decent something like 50-60mph at times so I decided to try and do a few second exposures of the shore line and this is the one that I like the most. Though there are a few things I'd like to change for the next time I do it.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31455071@N03/4689220183/" title="any pump house in a storm? by Sean Bonnette, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4689220183_0885142b4b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="any pump house in a storm?" /></a>

Looks like a pretty remote outpost! Do the buildings get drafty in the wind?

Originally Posted by furiousfart Went out for some boating around station yesterday, and found this really cool berg.

wow. just incredible scenery. would love to be there.
how abundant are the wildlife near the station? are there adelie and chinstrap colonies nearby? do you occasionally see emperors down there? during your free time, how far are you able to explore the area (officially and maybe unofficially)? and how large is the island? sorry to inundate you with all these questions! but i love antarctica.

While not from this year, this is one of my favorites from last year.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31455071@N03/4365634288/" title="Elephant seal, Mt William by Sean Bonnette, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4365634288_3e8aeb0ce9.jpg" width="500" height="332" alt="Elephant seal, Mt William" /></a>

There are a few Adelie coloneys near the station. Same with Gentoo, though not so many Chin Straps. Don't think there are any Emperor but every now and then a King will be spotted in the area. By boat we can go about 2 miles in any direction from the station, and there are a bunch of small islands that are fun to explore in this range. By land there is glacier we can hike but can't go really too far due to crevices.

The buildings do get drafty, most were built in the late 60's early 70's and not really designed to keep high winds out or the rain that it drives into any little gap that it can find.

Wow! Amazing photos; so far the iceberg photo is my favorite. I have friends who work at McMurdo during our winter (they sent me a couple of photos of some Emperors they got to see this year). Please keep the photos coming.

Kristine

WOW -- This would be a dream come true for me. I've always wanted to go to Antarctica. Can't wait to see more of your photos

Must be great to be stationed in this place. You have a unique opportunity that not many of us will ever have. Good luck on your assignment and hopefully you will have more free time in the future.