Sneaking up on Musk Ox
Believe it or not, it is possible for 50 people to sneak up on a Musk Ox – we proved it! On our Arctic expedition, one of our landings provided us with the opportunity to take a guided walk on…
Category Polar regions
The Birth of an Iceberg
This week on Taraji Blue our theme is “The Arctic” We’ll be sharing our favourite pictures and experiences. I’ll kick off with “The birth of an iceberg”… This is how bergs are born. Huge pieces of ice are calved off the face of…
Frozen Ballet, tickets sold out for 2012… try again in 2013
OK, typical New Year new promises but there were good (hmm… justifiable rather than good) reasons for absence in gazing around and contributing. So, onto a better plane. Trees stand fixed in position as the full moon rises above the…
Close Encounters That Make You Feel Insignificant
Greenland is guaranteed to maximise any inferiority complex you might have – and if you don’t have one, it’ll nurture one. It is, without a doubt, one of the most incredible and gigantic places on earth. 200ft icebergs towering over you in…
This Is Why I Love The Ocean…
I never thought I’d be a sea-going wench. I thought myself more of a landlubber who would never get used to the pitch and roll of the ocean – especially given my tendency for land-sickness in the early days of our travels. Truth be…
Icy ‘Close Encounters’ Of The Titanic Kind
This truly was a close encounter of the titanic kind… Whilst resting in Greenland’s Scoresbysund one evening, our ship was struck by an iceberg. Our captain used powerful search lights to explore the surrounding fjord in an attempt to find a navigable path out…
Close Encounters … The Day I Was Courted By A Gentoo Penguin
The ‘Close Encounters’ theme currently running on Taraji Blue’s facebook page (and shared here) is not about displaying our perfect and favourite photos – it’s about giving you glimpse into our travels, the things we have seen and the…
Softness and peace in photography
I wanted to expand a little on a comment I left on Google+ in response to David Bowden and Max Huijgen about the peculiar way this vast internet has very little space. There are many excellent highly saturated photographs on…