Photo chain

tony
October 10, 2015
Antarctica / iPhonography / travel

As Edin and I spend a lot of time photographing together, I quite often get photos of her taking photos and we can make a short photo chain of a photo and photo of the photo being taken. At Paradise Harbour the chain went one step further with Beverly Haas catching a photo of me taking a photo of Edin taking a photo of a Brown Skua scavenging a Blue-eyed Shag.

I didn’t realise I had been a subject in the chain until Beverly told me later and asked for an email to send the picture too. She has kindly agreed to her image being used in this week’s post and it is a lovely reminder for me of the special time we spent capturing the birds of Paradise Harbour. Some of our special moments were when Edin and I had the bow or aft deck to ourselves and were silently absorbed in observing the birds and making images. On this occasion we were cold after a Zodiac cruise and it was snowing on us so the sensible choice would have been a coffee or hot chocolate in the Chart Room but the opportunity to see the birds up against the cliff was just to good to be missed. It is great to have a visual reminder of my presence in addition to the photographs and memories I made – thanks Beverly.

Beverly Hass' photo of me photographing Edin. Lovely textures and colours of lichens and copper deposits. — Beverly Hass’ photo of me photographing Edin from the bow of NG Explorer. Lovely textures and colours of lichens and copper deposits.

My photo of Edin braving the snow to photograph the birds

Edin's photo of the Brown Skua scavenging a Blue-eyed Shag. — Edin’s photo of the Brown Skua scavenging a Blue-eyed Shag.

Another of Edin's images. This may look familiar from last week's blog when I posted an identical image that I took. — Another of Edin’s images. This may look familiar from a previous blog post when I posted an almost identical image that I took.

EXIF data suggests Beverly’s photo taken with a Samsung Galaxy S4 confirming how well smartphone cameras work and the resultant demise of the Point and Shoot sector of the camera market.

Edin’s photos with the amazing Nikon D700, still my all time favourite DSLR body, and the Nikon 80-400 AFS VR.
My photo of Edin with Nikon D810 and 200-400 F4 VR lens