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Joe Decker

Joe Decker is a California-based nature photographer, author and educator focusing on the power and beauty of the high latitudes.


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2017 Holiday Cards Now Available!
2017 Holiday Cards Now Available!
about a year ago

Once a year I produce a one-time print run of holiday cards with a winter-themed image, and ... it's that time again. This singular King Penguin from St Andrews Bay on South Georgia Island overlooks a warm misty sunrise and 150,000 of his closest friends....

KALEID show: Reception Friday, Feb 3, starting at 7pm
KALEID show: Reception Friday, Feb 3, starting at 7pm
about 2 years ago
Iceberg Curves, Weddell Sea
Iceberg Curves, Weddell Sea
about 2 years ago
Mono Lake in Winter Workshop - Jan 13-15
Mono Lake in Winter Workshop - Jan 13-15
about 2 years ago
Clearing Light, South Shetlands
Clearing Light, South Shetlands
about 2 years ago

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Lifting Mists, Palmer Archipelago

July 25, 2015

High winds and ice blocking the port had kept us back from landing at Wiencke Island earlier on this day, but after a long wait, the winds shifted, allowing access to the landing site, and as we began our landing as mists began to clear across the channel, in wonderful yet gentle golds and pinks.

Beyond the Parish-like (Parishish?) light, the sudden appearance of these mountain spires blew me away. I hadn't realized there were mountains in that direction at all (the weather had been that bad), and I was filled with a sense of awe and wonder from their scale. 

Because part of the joy of this image is in communicating that scale, I'm very much looking forward to making a huge print of this, the sense of size is not going to come through well on a computer monitor. But to give you a sense of it... the crop of a tiny area (about 2% of the image) at right provides a hint.

Despite the enormous difficulties in getting to Antarctica and the setbacks I've had on this project, it's moments like these, and images like these, that leave me deeply committed to expanding my body of polar work.

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