Winter in Antarctica.
The photo pretty much describes it. 10 second exposure with each person spelling out a letter with a sparkler.

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Full moon passing behind the Atmospheric Radiation Measuring facility

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Scott Base and Mount Erebus at noon in early August, a couple of weeks before the sun rises again.

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Scott Base and the shoreline pressure ridges from above. The ridges form from the movement of the nearby ice shelf pushing the annual sea ice against the shore.

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Looking at the ceremonial marker for the South Pole.

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Igloo lit from within.

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Flight deck of an LC-130 Hercules making a supply run to the South Pole from McMurdo Station.

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Flight deck of an LC-130 Hercules making a supply run to the South Pole from McMurdo Station.

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Flight deck of an LC-130 Hercules making a supply run to the South Pole from McMurdo Station.

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Top face of the Scott Base Pouwhenua watching the full moon rise above the Ross Ice Shelf.

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RNZAF 3 Squadron Helicopter on the sea ice in McMurdo Sound, and 3 curious adelie penguins that came running over to check it out.

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Helicopter resting on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound in the middle of the night in summer.

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Get to the choppah!

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Melt pool in front of Scott Base in late summer. Mt Erebus in the background.

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Scott Base at noon in late winter, a few weeks away from the sun rising again.

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The US and NZ hagglunds in a chance meeting on the sea ice of McMurdo Sound in late winter, with the sun still below the northern horizon.

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Scott Base at noon about a week before the sun is due to rise after the long dark winter. Some light nacreous clouds are in the sky above Mount Erebus.

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Sun dog, and the Scott Base hagglunds on the sea ice near Cape Royds.

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Sun dog and the Scott Base hagglunds on the sea ice next to the Barne Glacier.

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C5 Galaxy coming in to land on the sea ice runway in front of McMurdo Station in October 1998.

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The sun off on the northern horizon, a few days before it is due to disappear for the winter. Taken at Cape Crozier in April 1999.

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Frozen face, the moisture in your breath when you exhale will freeze when it comes into contact with your cold clothing and hair, and grow ice crystals.

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Frozen face, the moisture in your breath when you exhale will freeze when it comes into contact with your cold clothing and hair, and grow ice crystals. And if your nose runs from the cold, you get what is colloquially referred to as snotsicles.

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Seeing the sun for the first time at the end of winter, an amazing sight after it has not risen for so long.

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Filming ice crystal growths inside ice caves in the Erebus Ice Tongue Glacier.

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Looking out over the lower Taylor Valley after recent snow. It is not very common to see the ground covered in snow like this here.

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Holding down the equipment so none of it blows away when the helo lands next to it.

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A-Star helicopter

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McMurdo Station after a snow storm has blown through. Extremely solid snow, nothing fluffy about it.

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C5 Galaxy on the sea ice in front of McMurdo Station in 1998.

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View of the Ross Ice Shelf from the window of a C-17 transport plane.

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D8 bulldozer parked outside Scott Base in August, the noon glow behind Mount Erebus to the north.

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September 11th 2001 McMurdo Station

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A lone adelie penguin watches the US Coastguard icebreaker cruise by.

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Deep inside a crevasse on the side of Mount Erebus.

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McMurdo Station power, water, and waste plants in the foreground as seen from Hut Point.

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Survival training, looking down an open top crevasse. Crevasses are probably the biggest danger in Antarctica, since many of them are covered and cannot be seen from the surface, so it is easy to fall down one.

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Pisten Bully in the melt channels in front of Black Island.

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Scott Base Pouwhenua in stormy weather.

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A group of crab eater seals rushing to get away from a large killer whale.

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Geodesic dome that houses the Scott Base satellite communication dish.

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Slightly stormy weather at Scott Base.

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Scott Base with the rare view of liquid water after the sea ice has broken out.

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Scott Base in late summer, with hundreds of weddell seals that use the deteriorating pressure ridges to get holes to access the sea beneath.

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The Scott Base Road Sign, originally built from spare parts in 1999 by carpenter Grant Shadbolt with tongue in cheek, became somewhat of a local landmark.

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Stacked series of images looking up the microwave tower at Black Island, showing how the stars circle overhead.

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Stacked series of images looking up the microwave tower at Black Island, showing how the stars circle overhead.

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Reading by lantern while staying at the A-Frame building out on the Ross Ice Shelf. This was a favourite spot that Sir Ed Hillary liked to hang out. Alas the building has since burned down.

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