"A Waddle of Gentoos" 14/50 24" x 18" Canvas

Antarctica in Pictures The best 5 days of my life happened in Antarctica. O.K., I’m not including the day I got married or the birth of my 3 kids. But after that, it’s the Antarctica landscape. Easy. Picture mountains with dramatic exposure, rising right out of the sea to tower thousands of feet above you. Then dump fifty to a hundred feet of snow over everything. Then add tens of thousands of penguins waddling about. Finally, drop icebergs the size of city blocks into the water.  You’re getting close. Another huge part of the trip was the boat of over a hundred people I shared it with. You know that feeling you get when you’re reunited with your best friend after a long time apart? How you just pick right up where you left off? It was like that, but with complete strangers.  "A Waddle of Gentoos" was taken as I showshoed across the Antarctic landscape. The squawking of penguins staking out their territory mixed with the acrid smell of penguin poop was all too familiar by this point.