I recently was lucky enough to go on a trip to Antarctica. I asked one of the expert guides what continues to surprise him about this place and he said, “just the sheer size and scale of the landscape, it always takes my breath away.”
That incredible scale is part of what makes this trip so special, but it’s also an interesting challenge when you’re trying to document it in pictures, whether it’s for Google Maps or just for personal albums.
If you take a picture of just a mountain top, it can actually seem quite small unless there’s something else in the shot to show its true size. So I always tried to put something (or someone) in the foreground to give people seeing the photo some sense of just how vast the landscape was. Sometimes it was a footprint in the snow, a wave from our boat, or if I got really lucky, a penguin
Wow, what an incredible trip! I can’t believe you got to see all of those amazing places in Antarctica. The photos are breathtaking, and I can just imagine how amazing it must have been to be there in person.
… You are a lucky person…