tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Ektachrome

From one of the gritty "home developed" Ektachrome slides taken in 1966. Out on the sea ice among the islands near Mawson, for a practice run with the dog teams.

From one of the gritty "home developed" Ektachrome slides taken in 1966, this one cleaned up in post processing. Out on the sea ice among the islands near Mawson, for a practice run with the dog teams - here passing an iceberg. Another (more gritty) image in the PiP.

From a 1966 slide. Mawson lies under the auroral oval, the annular zone around the south magnetic pole where auroras are most prevalent. In plain language, there was an aurora most nights. This is from one of the Ektachrome films we "home developed" while there.

We're about to head away on travels in the next few days and now are in 'final preparations'. It's likely that I'll be (at the most) an occasional visitor for the next five weeks. First stop is Singapore, then points further north - who knows, we may even see an aurora! My thanks to the ipernity friends who have kindly given advice for our travels and best wishes to all here for the coming weeks. This image was first loaded to ipernity shortly after I joined and now is updated (view large on black). From an old 1966 slide (160 ISO Ektachrome , Minolta SR1, Minolta Auto Rokkor 58/1.4) taken at Mawson Station, Antarctica. Looking toward the SW, with snow drifts beside the huts - the kitchen/mess to the left and the radio shack to the right with the bright light. All these buildings have now gone as the station has been rebuilt.

From an old slide. Technically the quality of this is awful, with grit everywhere (much edited out). I've included it partly because of historical value and partly because it helps explain the quality of this and several later shots. In 1966 we still obtained our water supply in the 'traditional' way, by collecting snow by hand from snowdrifts and melting it: I doubt modern Antarctic stations have done this for years. The result was that water was always very limited. This was a daily routine after lunch and there always were a few stray husky pups around. I had a few rolls of "high speed" Ektachrome (160 ISO) and processing those at the station provided the only way to see any of our colour slide photos before our return the following year. But the lack of water meant they were not adequately washed.... hence! It's also fair to say that processing colour slides stretched both our competence and facilities.

Copied from an old slide. The coastal plateau near the coast around Mawson typically is hard glassy blue ice and not really suited to skiing, but not far inland an area at Fischer Nunatak had suitable snow surfaces, so a field hut had been placed there. Taken near sunset during a skiing excursion in the Snowtrac vehicle, with the North Masson and David ranges in the background and Mt Hordern far away to the right. This is from some rolls of 'high speed" Ektachrome (160 ASA/ISO) which we developed while at Mawson. The results were reasonable but gritty due to water shortages limiting washing. This has now been 'digitally cleaned' to some extent.

Copied from an old slide. The coastal plateau near the coast around Mawson typically is hard glassy blue ice and not really suited to skiing, but not far inland an area at Fischer Nunatak had suitable snow surfaces, so a field hut had been placed there. Needless to say, there were none of the lifts etc that make skiing somewhat less demanding in "civilised" ski fields! I had some rolls of 'high speed" Ektachrome (160 ASA) which we developed while at Mawson (under some difficulty). The results were reasonable but gritty due to water shortages limiting washing. See also my comment below about the developing process. This has now been 'digitally cleaned'.