Posted on 12/27/2013 6:38:42 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Almost one hundred years after a group of explorers set out across the frozen landscape of Antarctica to set up supply depots for famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, a box of 22 never-before-seen exposed but unprocessed negatives taken by the groups photographer has been unearthed in one of those shacks, preserved in a block of ice.
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Finally SEÑOR RIVERA WE FIND OUT WHAT WAS REALLY IN THAT SAFE....AND NO THANKS TO YOU! AEEEEEEE....CHIHUAHUA....!
It is indeed, an excellent account!
What a find! Amazing they were able to retrieve the images after so long, and from such a condition.
Yep. Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole. Scott died on the way back from the Pole, after realizing he'd lost the race. When Amundsen was informed Scott had died, he realized that no one would remember HIM, they'd only remember Scott's fatal attempt. Sadly, he was right; no one made a major motion picture about him getting to the Pole first.
FYI....it’s customary to put quotes around comments by others (or italicize them) when re-posting them in a new comment.
It was called The Last Place on Earth - the race between Scott & Amundsen. It’s available on DVD. Wonderful, if revisionary, look at Scott of the Antarctic.
I would imagine these were glass negatives.
No worries - the NSA will have a copy! ; p
Yup.
When the global network of computers crashes (and there is no reason to assume it can’t) a LOT of data will be lost forever.
That guy must be rich
Water is cold, too
What are conservatives doing in Antarctica? They don't belong there and need to leave!
Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow!
At the source article, there is a link to a short gallery of the photos they recovered. Most are photos of snow, the sea, and a few headlands. A couple photos with explorers on them.
I suppose you could compare them to photos taken by the Martian rovers of bleak Martian landscapes. They have value to people who understand what they are looking at or know how to objectively assess the imagery to learn things about the location that aren’t readily apparent. Such as how the snow drifts or the ice packs or the types of clouds, their coverage, and altitude. The shape and size of the visible headlands. The state of the sea at the time the photo was taken. Stuff like that was/is important to scientists of one stripe or another.
It’s amazing those images survived. I’m guessing glass negatives.
“I know I found a roll of 120 film at my grandmothers which had been lying on top of a safe for over 10 years. I had it processed and there was just the faintest image on two of them and the rest were totally blank.”
You had bad luck. I found a roll of exposed film at my grandparents house that was over 20 years old. It was B&W Kodak Verichrome Pan. Kodak sold a special additive chemical that I mixed with D-76 developer to reduce age-related fogging. The negatives turned out well and proved to be pictures of me and my sister when we were little kids.
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