Women are unfairly stereotyped as "bagoholics" while photographers are hoarding a closet full of old camera bags. Watch any photographer in a camera store and you'll see him eventually wonder into the bag section. I guess frequent travelers are constantly on the search for the best way to carry their luggage, but they also pale when compared to photographers. As a photographer, fairly...
The hardest part of getting ready for this trip was selecting the camera gear. I could not find enough online about what to bring and what to leave at home, so let me give you a hand. If you click on the Gear-Up page, you can see what I had to choose from. Rikki and Jack Swenson talked me into bringing my 300mm f2.8L IS lens, and I knew I wanted to bring 2 camera bodies. This was the...
It is time for my least favorite part of the trip - packing all my junk. I've already cut a lot out, and I'm still scratching my head on how I'm going to fit this mess in 2 bags. I think i've got everything covered on what I was told to bring, and I added a few things extra: 2 Gallon Ziploc bags and 2 rolls of waterproof duct tape. I can MacGyver anything now! In all seriousnous, the bags and...
When traveling with a travel company they always provide a "What to Pack" list. In my case, it can be accessed here in PDF format. Because I had so much time (a year and half from booking to boarding) I had a lot of time to research things. I could be wrong in some of my choices, and I'll report on that after the trip. I found a great site in my Googling, called Cool Antarctica - lots of...