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“Back in Antarctica: A Year With Birds” by Stefan Christmann (Website | Instagram | Facebook, see also his previous [NR] guest post, please click on images for larger view):

A Year With Birds

The monotonous sound of the Basler BT-67 plane hums in my ears when I wake up and open my eyes, just to get blinded by the incredible amount of light in the passenger cabin. I pull down my sunglasses and give my eyes a few seconds to adjust. It’s an overcast day, but the midnight Sun is still high enough in the sky to shine as bright as on a cloudless sunny day in central Europe. Europe – forests, mountains, street cafes, people – I won’t see all of that for 11 months. Instead I am back in a place, that my mind probably never quite left. I am back in Antarctica (see https://nikonrumors.com/2013/01/26/guest-post-my-year-in-antarctica.aspx/ for a report from the first trip). This time however, I will not be working as a scientist, who photographs this place in his free time. This time I am here as part of a BBC film-team and it will be my job to be out in the cold whenever the weather allows – and to take my camera with me wherever we go. It’s a dream come true and weirdly feels a bit like coming home.

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