#herbert ponting

[zegalba]

Herbert Ponting: Barne Glacier, Antarctica (1911)

#herbert ponting #barne glacier #antarctica #glacier #snow #ice #black and white #photography #1911

[violenceviolette]

Terra Nova expedition photographer Herbert Ponting standing on his head on the ice, c. 1911/1912

#terra nova expedition #herbert ponting #polar exploration #polar explorers #robert falcon scott #scott expedition #antarctica #antarctic exploration #south pole #back and white photography #boat media

[gacougnol]

Herbert Ponting

The Picture-Book, 1910.

#herbert ponting

[drawingwithlight]

Sled Dog Listens to Gramophone Antarctica (1911)

By Herbert Ponting

#photography #Herbert Ponting #sled dog #gramophone #antartica

[nopickls]

The Tempest, Act III, Scene II 

South (1919), Frank Hurley The Great White Silence (1924), Herbert Ponting

#antarctica #polar exploration #robert falcon scott #ernest shackleton #frank hurley #herbert ponting #south #great white silence #leonard hussey #shakespeare #my: gif #* #man. man #nothing of shakespeare has quite stuck with me like this bit. #well that and macbeth act iv scene i bc we did that for the class play and i will never forget the lines

[fire-in-the-aviary]

Herbert Ponting • Barne Glacier, Antarctica, circa 1911

#Herbert George Ponting #Herbert Ponting #Antarctica #1910s

[alienerad]

Herbert Ponting, The Castle Berg with Dog Sledge, September 17 1911

#photography #black and white #herbert ponting #antarctica #mountains

[sastrugie]

today I learned that meares wrote a poem about Ponting in the South Polar Times 1911:

I’ll sing a little song, about one among our throng, Whose skill in making pictures is not wanting. He takes pictures while you wait, “prices strictly moderate”; I refer, of course, to our Professor Ponting. Then pont, Ponko, pont and long may Ponko pont; With his finger on the trigger of his “gadget”. For whenever he’s around, we’re sure to hear the sound Of his high-speed cinematographic ratchet.

#bless him #cecil meares #herbert ponting #terra nova expedition #polar stuff

[lindahall]

Herbert Ponting – Scientist of the Day

Herbert George Ponting, a British photographer and explorer, was born Mar. 21, 1870.  

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#Herbert Ponting #photography #polar expeditions #histsci #histSTM #20th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

[worstjourney]

The Royal Collections has a selection of photographs and stuff from the 2012 Heart of the Great Alone exhibition. And you can download them! High res! Don't say the Royals have never done anything for us.

Quite a few of these have been available in high res elsewhere, and they aren't as beautifully detailed as they were in person, when the prints were feet in diameter; be still my heart. But the special thing about these images in particular is that Ponting made these prints for King George V his very own self, so they are exactly as he intended them to be seen. This includes the tints and coloured paper that look strange to us now, but do actually bring out subtleties in the values that don't show up so well in plain black and white.

Oh, there's also Endurance stuff etc. if you're interested in that, just select it from the "Contents" drop-down menu at the top.

#photos #terra nova expediton #scott expedition #herbert ponting #photography

[olympain]

“But when they found that I was not such a ruffian as I looked, I could even stroke them as they sat on their nests.”

#classicfilmedit #filmedit #classicfilmsource #classicfilmblr #the great white silence #herbert ponting #original #*gifs

[gacougnol]

Herbert Ponting

The Pines of Shizu-Ura, 1910.

#herbert ponting

[thehutpoint]

The Soldier on Quail Island, with Teddy Evans (far left), Scott (mid right) and Ponting (far right). I don' t recognize the chap between Teddy and Oates. Did you know The Soldier wore the charming outfit you see here (ratty bowler and hobnail boots included) to the Sydney races, utterly shocking Kathleen Scott?

#lawrence oates #oates #expedition terra nova #teddy evans #herbert ponting #robert falcon scott

[nopickls]

So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Footage of Robert Falcon Scott looking back at the camera from Herbert Ponting’s Great White Silence (1924)

#robert falcon scott #terra nova #polar exploration #herbert ponting #sabs....shackleguns you #my: gif #*

[fragrantblossoms]

Herbert Ponting.  Vida, 1911. 

#Herbert Ponting #Herbert George Ponting #Vida #fragrantblossoms

[contremineur]

Herbert Ponting, The sea freezing

Herbert George Ponting FRGS (21st March 1870 – 7th February 1935), best known as expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's 1910-13 Terra Nova expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole

from here

#herbert ponting #seascape #photography #moonlight #ice #terra nova