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September 11-12, 2005: Orkney at last, after a full day of travel from Oxfordshire. The least said about that, the better! In contrast, it’s easy to run short of words when trying to describe Orkney. For starters, the lighting is so variable. It can change from full sun to overcast in minutes and days that start with drizzling rain can evolve into either mist or intermittent sun and cloud.

August 29, 2005: When I fly out of Australia today it will be my first major trip without a film camera. All the photos I take in the next five weeks will be digital. The Photo Review team decided I should share my experiences with readers as many more people are now relying exclusively on digital capture, not only when they travel but for all their other photography.

February 19, 2006: We had our first sight of Antarctica late yesterday afternoon when, after hours of cruising through fog, Elephant Island loomed out of the mist. The Island rises in steep cliffs from the sea and you wonder how Shackleton’s men survived their long months of isolation there – and where they were able to camp. There’s a huge glacier pouring into the only harbour we could see, covering any beach that might have been and making it dangerous to approach. Icebergs frequently calve off the glacier cliffs down here and fall into the sea with a resounding crash, sending shock waves across the waters.

February 20, 2006: Today began early with a 6 am wake-up call for the intrepid souls who planned to climb Spigot Peak. This conical point rises up from the water roughly 300 metres and is backed by even taller mountains. The rest of us set off in Zodiacs for the much lower Danco Island, a 1.5-kilometre long land mass in the southern end of the Errera Channel. We had two objectives: observing gentoo penguins and climbing to the highest point on the island for a view over a spectacular part of the Antarctic Peninsula.