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All Change, Please	UPDATE 20/10/2023: the new site can now be seen in “preview release mode” at https://snowhenge.squarespace.com. There are a still few things to tidy up before I transfer the domain name permanently. This is my last post here. To be more specific, “here” will soon no longer be here. After several…	david mantripp	10/02/23	1	10/10/23
#35 Babo Hochhaus revisited	I published an earlier entry on the Babo Hochhaus on the outskirts of Baden Baden, Germany quite some time ago. These days the surrounding area has been considerably renovated, with the new Charles-De-Gaulle Platz centre stage. The building is unchanged, and sadly seems to be doomed to decay and collapse.…	david mantripp	06/07/23
Full Circle	So, I’m back from Iceland. Quite a few of my posts here have probably started with similar wording. I have added another 1400 or so rather average photos to my very large collection of rather average photos. I think it would be reasonable to expect that after well over 20…	david mantripp	03/08/23	4	05/17/23
#34 Gamla Höfnin	Two pairs of studies in Reykjavik Old Harbour in mid-February 2023. Although “your camera doesn’t matter”, the quality of rendering given by the Ricoh GRIII and Ricoh GRIIIx always astonishes me.	david mantripp	03/02/23
Capture One for iPad	I very much like the idea of CaptureOne on iPad. I participated in the Beta program, but at its conclusion, I could not see any immediate scenario where it would be of use to me. However, recently I decided to see how it could work for me in a real…	david mantripp	02/28/23
Iceland here I come	Icelanders can resign themselves to 10 days of even more miserable weather than usual, as I prepare to set off tomorrow. I don’t have a habit of bringing good weather with me, and I’ve never seen an aurora in Iceland. I actually have no expectations at all for this trip.…	david mantripp	02/14/23
David G. Vaughan	I heard some very sad news today. An old friend of mine, David Vaughan, from my misspent youth in Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey has sadly passed away. Since we lost touch years ago, and attempts I made in more recent years to get back in touch went nowhere,…	david mantripp	02/13/23
On the road again	This is mostly a post about camera bags. I’ll leave out the standard boilerplate about never having enough bags. Actually I have 3 bags in frontline service, an Atlas Athlete for “hybrid” trips and extended hiking, snowshoeing etc, a Mindshift Backlight 26L for more dedicated photography outings, and a Wotancraft…	david mantripp	02/09/23
Mountain Surprise	I’m afraid there hasn’t been a lot of activity in these parts recently. I have actually been doing a reasonable amount of photography, fitting it it in where I can, but I feel less and less motivated to write about it. Partly because maintaining a blog, or at least this…	david mantripp	01/30/23	2	05/07/23
The Capture One Outrage	The photointerwebs, or at least that part which is interested in Capture One, exploded in a orgy of demonstrative outrage last week, when a new pricing model was announced for Capture One software. In a nutshell, the current offer is that you can buy a “perpetual” license, which will give…	david mantripp	12/16/22
Introspection and Influence	One way or another photography is obviously a significant factor in my life. I’m honestly not sure if I’m happy with that, sometimes it feels like a massive waste of time, complete trivia, something I’m actually really not very good at - but it is what it is. I’m pretty…	david mantripp	12/02/22	3	12/19/22
#33 Chiasso Again	Following on from #32 Chiasso, here is a second random walk, this time under pouring rain. Ricoh GRIIIx living dangerously out in the wet.	david mantripp	10/24/22
#32 Chiasso	Chiasso is a Bordertown at the southern tip of Switzerland, only 50km from Milan, and somehow a world of its own. It’s time in the sun has passed: with extensive railway yards covering something like half of the town’s area, now mostly neglected, it used to be a vital commercial…	david mantripp	10/16/22
Architects may come…	Last night I finally finished reading the epic “Venice, the city and its architecture”, by Richard Goy (Phaedon Press, 1999). Let’s say that again, epic. And heavy too, both physically and intellectually. Although not having any architectural knowledge at all, some of the terminology made it quite hard going for…	david mantripp	10/10/22
Hasselblad XCD 35-75 Lens Review	I’ve always tended to avoid writing explicit gear reviews, for a number of reasons. First of all, I’m not really enough of a gear head or authority to write them, second, because it isn’t really about the gear, and third, because it’s too much like hard work. But on the…	david mantripp	08/16/22	2	05/07/23
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic	Although printing is a major part of photography for me, I don’t think I’ve ever written anything much about it. Still less about print papers. One can find interminable articles online about printing with this or that paper, along with intensely scientific charts and endless technicalese and associated geekery, usually…	david mantripp	08/08/22
Luca Campigotto’s Venice	Venice is a recurring theme on this blog, and always will be. I’m hardly the first person to be fascinated by the place, but it can become a borderline obsession at times. It is of course a subject for photography, but for me it is much more than that. What…	david mantripp	08/03/22
#31 L’Espiguette	The beach at L’Espiguette, on the Camargue coast, is one of the longest and least built-up in Europe. Obviously a main attraction is the sea and the sand, but looking in the other direction are extensive sand dunes, protected as a natural reserve (which some people even respect). All shots…	david mantripp	07/29/22
Website Update	If you visit here frequently, first, thanks a lot, and second, you may notice some changes. Following various comments and a lot of procrastination, I have completely rebuilt the back end of this website to prepare for it being adaptive to different devices. The actual full adaptation will be Phase…	david mantripp	07/29/22	2	08/02/22
Summertime	It’s been a very long time since I posted anything new here. Despite that I’m still getting more than 0 visitors, so thanks for that. I have very limited time to devote to this, and recently what time I have has been fully dedicated to maintenance and redevelopment. Over time…	david mantripp	06/24/22
OK \| CANCEL	I’ve kind of stopped outward communication for quite a while. I’m having one of my periodic diversions into mediuming rather than messaging, and as usual I’ve been sucked into a maelstrom of indecision. So funnily enough the subject of this return is quite on topic, as it is really does…	david mantripp	04/20/22
Ukraine - a call for help	Andrea Bianco is a photographer who publishes a very unusually erudite blog which I thoroughly recommend. However that is not today’s topic. Yesterday he sent out an email to his subscribers regarding action he has taken on contributing to the Ukrainian refugee crisis: We are living in terrible times, dear…	david mantripp	03/29/22	1	02/09/23
#30 Venezia Notturna	Venice is a completely different world at night. Mysterious yet comforting, alienating yet close. And forever addictive.	david mantripp	03/28/22
Xpan outings	For about a decade and a half, my Hasselblad XPan was a regular fixture in my life. I rarely went on any significant trip without it. But various things combined to make my use of it tail off. First of all my flirtation with the Linhof 612, which eventually burnt…	david mantripp	02/02/22
Stumped	I post photos quite regularly on Flickr, and have been doing so, with the odd gap or two, since 2006. There is an element of curation in this, but frankly the underlying reason is to have some community involvement, and of course to be showered with praise. For whatever reason…	david mantripp	01/05/22
A new Ricoh chapter	I’ve been waiting for this a long time. No, not just since September, when it was launched and became immediately unavailable. But since I started using its distant ancestor 2 decades ago. While 28mm was fine, and indeed often ideal, I did find that that it was a pity to…	david mantripp	12/28/21
Happy with Hasselblad	It’s taken a while: I bought into digital medium format with the Hasselblad X1DII some 18 months ago, and it has taken me that long to get comfortable with it, and start enjoying using it as opposed to feeling like I was testing it, or even fighting with it. Actually,…	david mantripp	12/22/21
#29 La Vallée	First photography-dedicated visit to nearby, but increasingly tourist-flooded Valle Verzasca in over a year. And first serious outing there with the Hasselblad X1D.	david mantripp	12/10/21
Random Content Generation	I haven’t written much here recently. Indeed, I haven’t done much worth writing about, in the context of this blog. Yesterday however I did have the chance to reflect as I laid back in the dentists chair and suffered an hour of scheduled routine maintenance (no major issues discovered), and…	david mantripp	11/23/21
The Future of this website	Just a short note to whoever might be interested: this website runs on a CMS called Expression Engine. Way back when I first built it, it seemed like a good idea, and there was considerable synergy between my working life and my real life. More than 10 years ago I…	david mantripp	10/20/21	1	10/25/21
Chasing Awe, with Gavin Hardcastle	I’m not a huge consumer of YouTube videos. At least, I wasn’t, until the universe flipped and I had more couch time than I knew what to do with. Initially YouTube was a rabbit hole of ancient music videos and British comedy shows, but gradually I became aware of photography…	david mantripp	10/08/21
Ricoh Revival	I’ve been using Ricoh GR cameras since 1997. In fact, the Ricoh GR1 was the first camera I bought new*, and had a significant part to play in my starting to take photography seriously. Since then, I’ve always owned a Ricoh GR of one kind or another, although my use…	david mantripp	10/05/21
Hasselblad X1D, one year later	It seems like only yesterday that I confessed to the Mother Of All Gear Acquisition Syndrome lapses, my entry into the Hasselblad “X System” (to be precise the second coming of the X System, the title having previously been used for the XPan). Actually it was more than a year…	david mantripp	09/22/21
Very late to the party	So I finally made it to one of today’s most over-exposed photographic locations, the Lofoten Islands. Very, very late to the party, but then again, most of the party seems to happen in the depths of winter, rather than late August / early September - which, in Lofoten, also apparently…	david mantripp	09/10/21
Take my advice…	One thing I don’t think I ever done on this blog is to give any kind of advice on photography, or attempt to do what is generally passed off as “teaching”. It isn’t that I jealously hoard any knowledge I may have - in other spheres of life I am…	david mantripp	08/03/21
A ecumenical matter	Recently, one of my millions of dedicated, enthusiastic followers sent me a link to an article on a theology professor discovering that his life was being slowed down by film. I had no idea that film has now graduated to becoming an ecumenical matter, but so be it. I’m not…	david mantripp	07/26/21
Photogallery: Provence	My ongoing lack of any significant new photography is having the side effect that I’m able to spend some time revisiting and evaluating my ridiculously large archive. The latest result from this is a new gallery of photos from Provence (and adjacent regions) taken at various times between 2010 and…	david mantripp	07/15/21
Provence	A retrospective from a number of trips to Provence and thereabouts. All very much "a la sauvette".	david mantripp	07/14/21
The best camera is ...	My process of self deconstruction as a photographer continues. I’ve just returned from a two week vacation, on which I did not take a camera. Admittedly it was basically 2 weeks on beaches in the south of France, but still, that did include several days in the Camargue and a…	david mantripp	07/12/21
Car Parks	I’m still not really sure that the Hasselblad X1DII is for me. This is convoluted with the fact that I’m not really sure any more that photography in general is for me. However, inspired by an article I read on the web, I decided to take the X1DII along with…	david mantripp	06/14/21
Oh, and another thing	You know, if there is one thing that the photo chattering classes go on about which really makes my blood boil, it is “storytelling”. There’s a fine example here, if you can stomach the smug, pseudo-intellectual self-congratulatory vibe on that site. With very few exceptions, in my opinion, single, still…	david mantripp	06/03/21
Svalbard Revisited	I visited Svalbard with a small group of friends back in 2010. I took along with me a camera for which I have few fond memories, the Olympus E-3. Even though this travelled all around the world with me, North to South, I never really developed much of a relationship…	david mantripp	05/17/21
Languishing	Around about 13 months ago the first lockdown started in my area. It was drastic and shocking. People where fearful of stepping outside, and given that we’re closely bordering on the hot spots of Northern Italy that wasn’t so surprising. Things gradually tailed off, until towards late summer we could…	david mantripp	05/04/21
True Colours	Colour is a funny thing. Online forums and photo geek sites are full of self-appointed experts droning on about “color science” and generally talking total rubbish. For a start colour perception is both physically and culturally subjective. Our eyes are all slightly different, and our brains process signals in slightly…	david mantripp	04/23/21
Strange Weather	With external borders more or less closed, this part of Switzerland has turned into pretty much the whole country’s holiday destination. But the famed “Ticino mediterranean climate” is not playing along. For example rather than the tranquil sun-kissed beaches the tourists might have been hoping for, instead Lago Maggiore has…	david mantripp	04/21/21
Levadas: a new gallery	I’ve just published a new photo gallery, “Madeira: Levadas”. This one has been a long time coming. I’ve reprocessed all the photos at least twice, in different applications. This final selection comes from Capture One, and some of the photos benefit from the new ProStandard profile for Olympus E-M1 Mk…	david mantripp	04/17/21
Madeira: Levadas	Madeira was a long-standing fascination for me, but I never really new why. After finally visiting for the first (and second) time in 2019, I now know. The dramatic landscape criss-crossed by epic artificial water channels - the "levadas" - hand carved out of vertical precipices and disappearing into mysterious…	david mantripp	04/16/21
Sebastian Copeland - A Global Warning	I’m not quite sure how to approach this book review. Mainly because I’m not quite sure what drove its publication. Sebastian Copeland has been publishing eco-activist photography books about polar regions for a while now: “Antarctica, The Global Warning”, foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev, “Antarctica, a Call To Action”, foreword by…	david mantripp	03/29/21
Award-Winning Extreme Photographer	I’m fairly astonished to be writing this, but apparently I’ve been awarded first place in the Landscape category of the “2021 Capture the Extreme Photography Competition” run by the Shackleton expedition clothing company and Leica. The photo is currently displayed on the front page of the Shackleton website: As well…	david mantripp	03/11/21
Deep Forest	One upside of being largely unable to travel outside of my immediate area for the last 6 months is that I have been able to spend some time reviewing and refining my huge backlog of photos, trying in some way to extract a portfolio. Although even this gets tedious at…	david mantripp	03/03/21
#28 Down Home Town	A set from a short stroll with the Ricoh GR around my nearest city: Lugano, Switzerland. Experimenting with “Retina” resolution for the first time…	david mantripp	03/01/21
Going wide in Antarctica	I have written more than one post about my enthusiasm for the Sigma dp0 Quattro. Having just completed editing the series of photos I took with it in Antarctica little over a year ago, I felt like writing a bit more. For me the dp0 plays the role of high…	david mantripp	02/19/21
#27 Sigma Goes South	This is the first “camera based” entry I’ve posted here. Also the first to span a long time frame. It really isn’t about the gear, but here I have to make an exception. All of these photos were taken in Antarctica, using the Sigma dp0 Quattro camera, in 2016-2020. There…	david mantripp	02/10/21
Missing the shot	I have just about finished reprocessing around 450 selected photos from last January in Antarctica (out of over 6000). I’m still unable to see the wood for trees, so I don’t really know if there are any genuinely good photos in there, but at least I am moving in the…	david mantripp	02/02/21
Them ‘ol stagnation blues	Life goes on, and one sure thing is that my virtual stack of photos grows ever higher. Unfortunately, my satisfaction with said stack only diminishes. I’ve been doing photography as my main pastime for over 20 years, and I have to admit that I’ve got little to show for it.…	david mantripp	01/27/21
Hasselblad X1DII - so far	Back in August, I took a big step into the photographic unknown with the purchase of a Hasselblad X1DII. In order to afford this extravagance, I sold off my Sigma sdH, several Olympus bodies, my Linhof 612 and my Voigtländer Bessa III. This allowed me to buy the X1DII body,…	david mantripp	01/07/21
Silverfast 9 bursts forth - UPDATED	A totally unexpected email popped up in my inbox yesterday, announcing the release of Silverfast 9. It’s a weird time of year to announce a new product, but Lasersoft are a weird company (I used to think of them as eccentric, which has a certain charm, but now they’re just…	david mantripp	12/18/20
Losing faith in Lightroom	At various intervals over the years I’ve questioned if I’m using the best approach to managing and processing my digital image files. As covered ad infinitum in previous posts, my tool of choice was Apple Aperture, but that rug was pulled from under my feet by the bling-flingers in Cupertino.…	david mantripp	12/16/20
#26 The White Arcades	These photographs document what is one of the most amazing icebergs I have ever seen, nearby Port Charcot, Antarctica - and I’ve seen quite a few. On approach, it seemed interesting, but nothing could prepare us for the sudden reveal of the incredible sight of an arcade of fluted columns…	david mantripp	12/15/20	1	02/02/22
Chilean Patagonia gallery	I’ve gone through another quiet period here. There’s a whole bunch of stuff I could write about, stacks of books I could review, but I really don’t get the impression that the world is holding its breath waiting for something new on snowhenge.net. I have been relatively productive on churning…	david mantripp	12/03/20
Chilean Patagonia	A selection of photos taken over a period of 10 days in January 2020 in Torres del Paine and Bernado O'Higgins National Parks in Chilean Patagonia.	david mantripp	12/03/20
#25 Grey Glacier	A grey afternoon at Grey Glacier. Battered by a relentless, breath catching Patagonian wind, it was an intense experience. In many ways I find temperate glaciers like this more photogenic than polar glaciers, due to their juxtaposition with forests and alpine environments.	david mantripp	11/05/20
Another Place Press	Time to confess to another addiction: Another Place Press photobooks. APP is nearly 5 years old, and since its birth, has been a prodigiously frequent source of publications remarkable for their consistency of quality of both form and content. APP is run by Iain Sarjeant, himself a fascinating photographer, and…	david mantripp	10/19/20
Negative Lab Pro	This is a quick review of Negative Lab Pro, a piece of software I’ve been aware of for some time, but only just now got around to trying. Upfront, the website claims “NEGATIVE LAB PRO brings impossibly good color negative conversions right into your Lightroom workflow”. And it does exactly…	david mantripp	10/16/20
For your reading pleasure	Some two years back, news emerged on the intrawebs of a new online magazine called MediumFormat. This appeared to be a collective effort, with at its core, a terrible trio of Ming Thein, Lloyd Chambers and Patrick LaRoque. My immediate thought ws “there’s no way I’m going to pay money…	david mantripp	10/09/20
6000 sow’s ears	I enjoy taking photos. Seeing the world through a viewfinder, and cutting out pieces of it to copy and keep gives me a sense of accomplishment. Maybe it even makes me happy (my default state being “miserable old git”). The rest of it… I don’t know. The long, long process…	david mantripp	10/05/20
Dear Susan		david mantripp	09/23/20
Vieri Bottazini		david mantripp	09/23/20
#24 Il Mezzogiorno	Most of Italy to the south of Rome is known as “Il Mezzogiorno”, or Midday. There are various theories to the origin of the name, one being that it ties in with the position of the sun at midday, but most simply refer to the association with the relentless midday…	david mantripp	09/23/20
End Frame	This is quite possible the last frame I ever took on my Hasselblad XPan II: After I pressed the shutter, the familiar film winding sound did not come. The film counter LCD showed "E". Pressing the film rewind button had no effect. All I could do was open the back…	david mantripp	09/17/20	1	10/18/22
#23 Alberobello	Alberobello, a Unesco World Heritage site in Puglia, Italy, is famous for its trulli (I suppose “trullos” in English), homes with conical rooves made without mortar, and, apparently, designed to be quickly dismantled thus to fool tax collectors. It is also famous for being absolutely heaving with tourists. For whatever…	david mantripp	09/10/20
#22 Finito Benito	Over time, in various places in Italy, I have come to realise that traces of the past Fascist regime are endemic. In some areas it is more obvious, especially the city centre monumental architecture, and the Mussolini souvenir industry seen particularly in parts of Sicily. What I am most affected…	david mantripp	09/08/20
The last roll of the dice	So, as hinted in my last post, I've gone off at the deep end. I have renounced common sense, fiscal rectitude and a bunch of other things and bought into the new-ish Hasselblad X Medium Format digital system. I'd been eyeing this for a long time, and when a very…	david mantripp	08/13/20
No more excuses	(as previously hinted 😊 )	david mantripp	08/08/20
Sara Wheeler	Admin Note: one decision to emerge the hand-wringing period I had over this website is that I would close off my non-photography blog, The Evenings Out Here, which was anyway moribund, and publish occasional off-topic posts here. Whatever "off-topic" may mean - since it is all personal anyway, everything is…	david mantripp	08/07/20
The Filmopocene	I always thought that my persistence with film photography had nothing to do with nostalgia, or wanting to pursue some retro look. I thought it was just that I liked how some film photographs look, here and now, not in the past. Now that I’ve largely abandoned it, I’ve come…	david mantripp	08/05/20
Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-45mm f/1:4 PRO review	So, here’s a gear review. It’s not tongue in cheek, nor is it sarcastic, but it is purely subjective, is grounded solely on my own needs and desires, and has absolutely no measurements or “tests”. I didn’t need the (deep breath) Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-45mm f/1:4 PRO lens. I’ve…	david mantripp	07/22/20
Farewell Medium Format	It’s all change at snowhenge headquarters. I’ve recently divested myself of all medium format film cameras, but also all unessential digital stuff which I have acquired over the years. There is no question that I truly love the look of medium format film, especially Kodak Portra 400, but also Fuji…	david mantripp	07/14/20
Site refresh	As frequent readers of this blog will know, I’ve been undergoing an existential struggle trying to figure out what the actual purpose of all this is. Partly due to feeling that the blog part of the website is effectively just me shouting at clouds, I had reached the conclusion that…	david mantripp	06/24/20
Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III	Well ok, bowing to intense pressure I’m going to resume blogging in a sporadic way, because my fans tell me that’s what they want. And in order to boost my traffic to unprecedented levels, I’m going to do a gear review. So here we go. In March I bought an…	david mantripp	06/05/20
Dunbloggin?	All my pictures are falling From the wall where I placed them yesterday The world is turning I hope it don’t turn away Many, many years I started up this blog with the idea of sharing thoughts and ideas with the wider world. Originally it was part photography, part generic,…	david mantripp	05/19/20
1000, out.	“detach” - my 1000th, and last photo on Flickr” Yesterday I was playing around with an interpretation of a photo I took a few months back, which I quite like, and decided to post it on Flickr. As I was doing so, I noticed it was my 1000th post. So,…	david mantripp	05/12/20
Set in stone. By Me.	It’s been quite a struggle, but finally a few fruits of creativity under lockdown are beginning to emerge. The first, completed a few weeks ago, had to wait for the physical evidence to be announced, and this arrived today. My “proof” copy of a small Blurb-produced book, which I’ve called…	david mantripp	05/11/20
Why I still miss Aperture	It seems weird to be writing about Apple Aperture in 2020, some 5 years since its nominal demise. It does still work on MacOS Mojave, although it seems to make the OS crash if it is left running for too long (several days). I still lament its passing, while acknowledging…	david mantripp	04/17/20
Undertow, by Frances Scott	Undertow, by Frances Scott, is one of the most recent publications from Iain Sarjeant’s innovative and energetic Another Place Press. Like all of Another Place’s output, “Undertow” is small, beautifully designed and excellent value for money. It’s quite difficult to pin a genre on “Undertow”. The closest I can get…	david mantripp	04/14/20
Not a wildlife photographer	Seems that for a lot of photographers the current lockdown has a silver lining, as it provides time to organise, curate, edit and generally sort out photography backlogs. It should be the same for me, but somehow I’m finding it even harder to focus on these activities right now. But…	david mantripp	03/27/20
Torres del Paine, by Francisco Espíldora	Whenever I travel, I keep an eye open for books by local photographers, on the grounds that they will almost certainly be full of photos better than I could ever make. Of course there are always garish anthologies of sub-postcard level stuff which manage the near impossible feat of being…	david mantripp	03/25/20
The Atlas Athlete backpack	Over the years I’ve written a fair few articles on camera bags. It’s a given that no self-respecting photographer can ever have too many bags. Well, for me the search for the as-close-to-perfect bag seems to be at an end. I’m not claiming that I have found a single bag…	david mantripp	03/17/20
#21 Impossible Archipelagos	A fleeting survey of maps of impossible archipelagos projected on the rock face of the Lemaire Channel Antarctica.	david mantripp	03/09/20
Greenland Landscapes Gallery	I am absolutely delighted to present my second set of photos from last September’s perambulations in East Greenland, which I have cunningly named “Greenland Landscapes” in order to trick you into thinking you have not, in fact, been presented with an eye-searingly dreadful set of kitsch postcards. As the blurb…	david mantripp	02/26/20
Greenland Landscapes	A companion set to Greenland Icescapes, also taken in the fjord complex around Illoqqortoormiut, formerly known as Scoresbysund, in East Greenland. Proper landscape photographers hate blue skies and bright sunlight. I prefer to take conditions as they come and work around them without too many preconceived ideas. Hence these wonderfully…	david mantripp	02/26/20
Greenland Icescapes Gallery	Finally I’m starting to break the logjam of my photo backlog: I’ve just published a new gallery of iceberg photos taken in East Greenland in September 2019. Feedback is always welcome, even if it is negative.	david mantripp	02/05/20
Greenland Icescapes	The fjord complex around Illoqqortoormiut, formerly known as Scoresbysund, in East Greenland, has the richest display of icebergs I've ever seen. Not, perhaps, as huge as some found in Antarctica, but much more diverse in colouring, shape and texture. It's pretty difficult to reduce this down to 16 photos, but…	david mantripp	02/05/20
Antarctica, Round 5	On Saturday I finally got home after leaving King George island, Antarctica on Wednesday afternoon. A long trip even if for the first time it involved flying over the Drake Passage rather than being thrown all over a ship for 3 miserable days. So, this was my fifth visit to…	david mantripp	02/04/20
Doubling down	The frequency at which I updating this site recently hardly justifies the hosting fees, or indeed all the work I put into upgrading it some months back. This reflects my currently diminished interest in “engaging with the community”, where more and more I’m finding that an audience of 1 is…	david mantripp	12/28/19
Flip Flop	Hello? Anybody still reading this stuff? Not that I’m writing anything… So, I had a mega post ready to go a few weeks back, with the title “Everything Must Go”, and the content was exactly what the title said. I was putting up for sale all my film cameras (Hasselblad…	david mantripp	11/22/19
Too Many Photos…	I really did promise myself this time: I’d keep things under control, be disciplined, and bring home a manageable number of photos. I’d only take the shots worth taking, not the maybes, and absolutely not the documentary shots,. I’d only shoot under good light. Etcetera, etcetera. So, what happened ?…	david mantripp	10/20/19
Greenland Return	In August 1999 I joined a small group trekking in the general area of Tasilaaq, East Greenland. I travelled there via Iceland, a place that didn’t make a huge impression on me at the time. That changed… Just over 20 years later, much older and no more wiser, I repeated…	david mantripp	09/23/19
#20 Nerlerit Inaat	CNP - Constable Point - Nerlerit Inaat. A place where 1 day is a slight delay. September, 2019.	david mantripp	09/21/19
Adrift	So here I am, sitting in seat 2F of an Icelandair Boeing 757, on my way to Greenland via Reykjavik, about 20 years and 1 month since I was doing pretty much exactly the same thing. Back then, I had some idea of what I was looking for. In fact…	david mantripp	09/11/19