Some pictures from down South!

[Antarctic Mat]

Hello!
I'm new here, just introduced myself on the General Gassing forum, thought I'd pop a few pictures up on here. I'm a very keen photographer but not at the moment as we are in 24hr darkness. Anyway, here's a couple from the last 2 years I have been down here.









The last one is Aurora Australis, very rare to see as it's hard to get far enough South, we get a few good displays down here.
Mat.

[mneame]

wow great shots.

24hr darkness must be a bummer. i'd feel like sleeping all the time!

[Mr MoJo]

Fantastic, welcome to PH.

Was going to say hello in general Gassing but now I'm here so there you go

ps can I have your penguin.

[Arif110]

Well you're certainly not wasted all the way over that in neck of the planet!

Welcome - and good one for piping up and introducing yourself - IMO you must have one of the most exotic/interesting occupations here - which is a tall order.

[GetCarter]

Hi Mat and welcome.

"It's a bit nippy here" (from your profile) deserves some sort of award.

[gregorio!]

Hi and welcome. Great photos. Is the last one the 'southern' lights then presumably?

[Andy M]

Excellent!

Would love to see more...

[Antarctic Mat]

Hello!
Thanks for the comments. Yes Gregorio, Aurora Australis is the Southern Lights, Aurora Borealas are the Northern. No worries Mr Mojo, I'll bring you one back!
Cheers.
Mat

[ehyouwhat]

Awesome. Just Awesome.

And hi Mat!

[VxDuncan]

24hr darkness? No problem! Get a telescope!

Seriously, You are in pretty much the ideal location for astrophotography (depending on altitude). Get a scope and give it a go!

Great pics btw.

[CVP]

Welcome, got to love that penguin plus I like the light on the mountains, looks an incredible place.

Cheers

Chris

[KB_S1]

Great pictures, kind of glad you took them and not me though.

Do you get much opportunity to enjoy nice vehicles out there then?

[TonyHetherington]

Love the pictures, thanks for sharing...and welcome!

[Antarctic Mat]

Ok, here's some vehicle pics. I look after SnoCats, Skidoos, Challengers, Bulldozers, Nodwell Cranes, John Deere quad tracks, a few below.

SnoCat


John Deeres and Challengers hooked up to move the garage, it's on ski's and gets mooved every year due to snow buildup.


Cat D5 dozer, we have 3 D5's and a D4


I look after over 30 skidoos, here a couple of the guys on base give me a hand to get the doos inside where they are defrosted and serviced.


This is the garage taken a couple of weeks ago at midday. I have 2 dozers and a SnoCat parked behind, they are hooked up to 110v when they need to be started, block heaters warm the oil.


Cheers.
Mat.

[Rednut05]

Welcome.

Where did you inhabit before moving south?

I opened up the thread expecting to recognise some shots as I'm South England, but could I literary be more wrong in that thought!

Great pictures and 'When You're Gone' is a good song.

David

[le gravy noire]

Can I come and "help" would love to go down there with the big pano camera.

[RobDickinson]

Wow nice pix.

I thnik were almost neighbours too Tho its not quite that dark & cold here.

[Antarctic Mat]

Thanks for the comments! Noire, coming down here with a medium or large format would be great, I spent my first year on the Antarctic Peninsular, stunning scenery and lots of animals, at the moment I'm a lot further south on a base built on a floating ice shelf, a lot less scenery but still stunning. Cheers Rednut although don't listen to that, it's just a bit of mucking about, get quite a bit of time here to develop things you'd never normaly do! Yes Rob, we're neighbours almost! I love NZ, spent 6 months there before coming down here, would love to live there one day.
Thanks again, glad you guys like the pictures!
Mat.

[rhubarb]

Mat, they're absolutely incredible

[Dibble]

Hi Mat

Nice photos.

Just keep to the speed limit on those Skidoos... I'd hate to have to come down there and deliver a Court summons to you (actually, I'd love a trip down there).

Dibble