Hi folks,
This morning (Saturday) I was listening to a favourite radio show (National
Radio on the AM frequency band ) and today it was being broadcast from the
New Zealand Scott Base in the Antarctic. Just a little bit north of where the
ice is 3 km deep over the South Pole. Actually, quite a bit north of there, on
Ross Island.
When I heard that at 11.30 that Andris Apse
( http://www.nzlandscapes.co.nz/ ), a noteworthy NZ photographer, also
down there right now, would be interviewed, I hung around the radio and
listened in.
He shoots 6 x 12 and 6 x 17 (cm). Probably a little 35 mm too, as he did
mention that he had a small electronic camera down there with him that
couldn't hack the conditions in the Dry Valley system even though he had
the battery inside his clothes.. He mentioned ice on the lens and maybe
inside.
However.
He told Kim Hill (that's not her real name, just her stage name) the
interviewer, how he goes about getting his prize landscape images.
When he wants to take a shot located in a specific area, he will go there and
spend maybe 3 days or a week finding the precise point from which he wants
to take the shot. Then he visualises what sort of shot he wants to take,
considering the angle of the sun and similar matters. He gets the GPS data,
logs that in, and uses this to calculate the days of the year and the time on
those days he will need to be there to fulfil those conditions.
Sometimes he may have to return for 3 years at the selected days to get a
coincidence of good weather with his visualised image.
As he said, it may take only 2 minutes to take the shot, but planning over
several years to make it possible. It is not uncommon for him to take only 3
shots in a week at any one such location.
He has not only made a lifetime career out of photography, but he is fairly
well off now. Comfortable, you might say.
He has now in preparation a book of photos taken over 25 years of Fiordland
that is close to being printed. It sounds as though all the shots in that book
will have been made this way. Asked what sort of price the book will go for,
he said that to break even it should be priced at $3,000 per eaches (for non-
english readers, that is bad english). $3,000 New Zealand dollars, that is.
Cheers
Brian
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