Friday, October 18, 2013

Day 3- Picture Painting & The Moon



Another beautiful day. The rocking and rolling and smashing and splashing is gone. The ship sailing once more smoothly, the sun shining outside. Its 7 am I am awake and heading once again back down deep into the hull of the ship to do another yoga session. I do notice that I am not as fresh as I was the past two days, I guess the rocking and rolling and walking on swaying ship – yes I am not drunk – it’s a dry ship – providing ample exercise for those walking around and going about their work. 

After breakfast I went back up onto the bridge, not to take any pictures but to take out my aquarelle and capture the ship sailing along its way. Not as spectacular as yesterday night, though painting allows to look and take in details. It’s a potpourri of colors. Blue, orange, yellow containers securely fastened on the green of the front deck. The ships crane, nicely orange painted with all the grease merging it into a grey. In the far distance the many shades of dark blue with nice white crown. The black tower of the ships light on the bow – great contrast to the bright orange of the ship’s hull. The horizon in the far distance missing in the grey mist blurring heaven from earth.


Back to reality and what we are actually here for. Work is what brings us south and thus we are planning and preparing and gathering together to discuss and make plans. And thus we had our first group meeting. More on this at another point. Off for lunch first and then digging in and playing more catch up with things. After two days of merging, copying and deleting. The first back-up folder is gone. The tally down to 1.2 TB. That’s success. 

Before dinner I took my new 50-500 mm lens once more out for a play trying to shoot some sea-birds. Well if all the environmental regulations in Antarctica neither shooting nor capturing sounds appropriate. Though banning, or let’s say getting them or even better reproducing them on a digital media is permitted. After all this wordsmithing - Dinner followed by a presentation of an Aboriginal Community in Central Western Australia and a last look at the moon before heading to bed.


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