Light Recordings
9 February 2009 | Writing and Photography by Erika Blumenfeld

Day 18; February 9, 2009; Vesleskaervet, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica Average Daily Temperature: 9.86˚ F Average Daily Wind Speed: 18.12 mph Feels Like: -17.32˚ F Today was quiet, and rather wonderfully subdued. I spent a good deal of the afternoon gazing out the window of my studio, meditating on the changing luminosity across the horizon to the south. The mountains appeared and disappeared behind think low clouds, and it was snowing heavily in the distance, leaving the farthest mountains obscured completely in gray opacity. As the sun aligned itself on the horizon, there was another intense sun pillar. Rising like a flame above the rocks on the edge of our…read more »