tiabunna's photos with the keyword: negative

From an old negative. On the first day of the Spring Trip inland from Mawson, the station's VW followed the tractor trains for several miles. Here it is crossing through reasonably small sastrugi.

Stitched panorama from old negatives. Looking further south into the Prince Charles Mountains from Mt Lacey, the most southerly point I reached. Here we erected a trig point and took readings of distance with a tellurometer to a field party travelling to other peaks in the area. The distant mountain range is about 30km away, Mt Bechervaise is the large peak on the far left. (I suggest viewing on black)

From an old negative and best viewed on black. The only previous expedition to this area had described Mt Bechervaise as "impossible". That was something of a challenge to the more expert climbers in our group: here the climbing party prepares to make the first ascent. I was quite happy to watch. :) They took about four hours to reach the summit and another four to return.

Stitched panorama from old negatives (best viewed on black). Looking from Peak 7 south toward our destination, still some 48km (30 miles) distant. We established our base camp about 8km from the mountains, more or less in line between the left of the foreground rock outcrop and the large mountain massif above and to the right, about one third into the photo. This is the "Athos" range of the PCM, those with a literary inclination will not be surprised that the next two ranges are named "Porthos" and "Aramis" : after the Three Musketeers.

From an old negative. This was the largest mountain near our camp site in the Prince Charles Mountains, rising about 450 metres above the surrounding plateau ice (itself over 1500M thick here). Also seen on the left of the panorama shot from Mt Lacey.

From an old negative. I've at last found my negatives from Mawson (I used two camera bodies, one with slides one with B/W). So I'm going back to the start of the 1966 Spring Trip from Mawson, showing two tractors hauling caravans to the plateau. Once there, the caravans and sledges were organised into trains. The husky pups really aren't hauling anything. :) Minolta SR1 with Adox film, Auto Rokkor 55/1.8.

This was "my" vehicle during the survey activities, a Polaris "Sno Traveler" (sic). It had the advantage of a very light footprint, just as well in crevasse territory, though the ride over sastrugi was very rough: it shook apart my Weston lightmeter! The engine was a single cylinder four stroke Kohler, here being pre-heated for the day's work.

Reposted after reprocessing. From an old negative, taken exactly 50 years ago today (9 October 1966). View large. Here the 1966 Spring surveying trip from Mawson is just heading out across the blue ice at the edge of the Antarctic plateau. Taken from the roof of the main caravan. In the distance, several expeditioners can be seen on the ice farewelling us, also the VW following for the early stage. For the next four months, "the world" consisted of just the seven of us.