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South Pole Winter 2019
 Here's the official winterover photo...created by Viktor Barricklow. I'm told that it was cloudy when this was taken, so the sky effects were photoshopped in. And there's a key to where everyone is in the photo! Here is an unedited version (704 kb).  Here's the base photo... ...and below, a blown-up view of the legend, overenhanced for legibility.  But...it turns out, there is more than one winterover photo! On the back of the above photo is...this one:  Johan Booth was famously averse to having his photo taken, so he appears very rarely in his Pole and Palmer winterover photos. 2019 was his eleventh Pole winter and his 19th overall. The photo background reflects Johan's penchant for tie-dye. Here is a closer view of the photo of Johan...note that it includes reflections from the glass. These photos are from fellow 2019 winterover George Wortley. Johan wintered once more in 2020 and DID appear in that group winterover picture. Johan died in June 2022 (obituaries).  Here's the rather dramatic midwinter greeting photo/card! The card was created by Viktor Barricklow along with Luis Antonio Gonzalez. Its original inspiration was the "three wolves howling at the moon" T-shirt theme/meme. Here's his description of the amazing photo creation: " I took a photo of everybody from the mezzanine of the B2 Science Lab and had everybody look to the right of my camera a bit. Then the Wayne photo I took separately using some backlighting. Then lastly, the background shot is just an aurora photo I took outside of DA looking towards the Dark Sector. Then I used Photoshop to put them all together!" Here's a larger file size version of the greeting card.
 Some of the greeting cards from other Antarctic stations...Palmer Station's greeting is at far left in the second row, and McMurdo's is four to the right of it.  Oh, of course the occasion called for a special dinner on Saturday 22 June.  The main menu was quite extensive, including entrees of lobster tail and leg of lamb. But there were also "goodies" that used to be the main diet of the heroic era explorers: sledging biscuits, dried fish, and two varieties of pemmican. Some of these were created with the help of that 2012 book Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by friend Jason Anthony. He worked on the ice between 1994 and 2004, including a few weeks at Pole in 1999-2000 as a fuelie. In 2001 he spent much of the summer with one other person maintaining the Odell Glacier blue ice runway 120 miles from McMurdo--it was maintained as an emergency landing site for the Air Force (they never used it while he was there). More about Jason and the book is in this 2012 Antarctic Sun article. The greeting card and "Hoosh" photos are by Robert Schwarz; the dinner photo is by Viktor Barricklow. |
