#Herbert George Ponting

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Herbert Ponting • Barne Glacier, Antarctica, circa 1911

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"When the Sun passed round to the west...the beams that streamed in were reflected by myriads of crystals, which decomposed the rays into lovely prismatic hues, so that the walls appeared to be studded with gems." -Herbert George Ponting, The Great White South, 1921

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Herbert Ponting.  Vida, 1911. 

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The Terra Nova in a gale, Mar 1912, by Herbert George Ponting (1870-1935)

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Herbert Ponting – Scientist of the Day

Herbert George Ponting, a British photographer and explorer, was born Mar. 21, 1870.  

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Herbert George Ponting

There is various and conflicting information about this image:

Sotheby’s: A dog team resting by an iceberg, 1912

flopetersgallery: Under the lee of the Castle Berg, 1911.

art.com: Dog team resting during the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910

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Herbert Ponting, The sea freezing

Herbert George Ponting FRGS (21st March 1870 – 7th February 1935), best known as expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's 1910-13 Terra Nova expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole

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The Great White Silence (Herbert G. Ponting, 1922)

Cast: Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans, Lawrence E.G. Oates, Edward Adrian Wilson. 

Back in the 1980s, Ted Turner provoked an outcry with his proposal to colorize the black-and-white films in his library. Filmmakers, historians, and critics protested, and with good reason: I remember watching Turner's colorized Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) and being startled by the paisley print on a blouse worn by Ingrid Bergman; I had never noticed it before the added colors made it stand out, which was certainly not the intention of the director, cinematographer Arthur Edeson, or perhaps even the costume designer, Orry-Kelly. Eventually, legislation put restrictions on such manipulation of old movies. But colorization was not a new thing: From the very beginning, filmmakers tried to add color to movies, usually by tinting the film stock a solid color: blue for night scenes; reds, oranges, and yellows for hot settings like Death Valley in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924); even pink for love scenes. Most silent movies after 1920 were colored in this way. But there were also attempts at more realistic coloring: For some of his short films, like A Trip to the Moon (1920), George Méliès used a technique devised by Elisabeth Thuillier, a kind of factory assembly-line of colorists who painstakingly added colors to the actors, costumes, and sets in each frame of the film. The technique proved too cumbersome and expensive as movies reached feature length. But it's one of the hallmarks of Herbert G. Ponting's documentary about the fateful Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott in 1910-13, The Great White Silence. Even though the whiteness of ice and snow is Antarctica's dominant feature, Ponting decided to hand-tint the footage he had shot ten years earlier, and thereby accentuated the contrast between human and animal life and the deadly whiteness of the continent. Color provides the life in the life-and-death struggle to reach -- and return from -- the South Pole. The images Ponting captured as the photographer for the expedition, using photographic equipment that now seems primitive, are the essence of the movie, and they often seem as fresh as if they were shot yesterday. Ponting was not allowed to accompany Scott from the base camp to the pole, which is from our point of view fortunate, as we might not have the record he made of the expedition now. But he filmed Scott and his fellow explorers as they rehearsed for the journey, trekking through the snows, setting up tents, bedding down, so he was able to give us at least some sense of what the men endured. Too bad that The Great White Silence is accompanied by a narrative that seems antique in ways that Ponting's images aren't. There's a lot of rather jingoist rhetoric about how Scott's expedition is a tribute to the English spirit, a credit to what Ponting calls "the Race," by which he seems to mean Anglo-Saxons. (One of the crew members has a pet black cat with an unfortunately racist name.) Ponting seems unconcerned with the irony that the doughty Englishmen of Scott's team failed to reach the South Pole before their chief competitor in the race, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen. Ponting's images of the animal life of Antarctica, seals and gulls and penguins, are accompanied by coy, condescending, anthropomorphic commentary that sets the tone for nature documentaries that followed. Still, it's an astonishing and invaluable film that fully merited the careful reconstruction that makes it available to us a century later. 

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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Herbert G. Ponting

Herbert George Ponting was a Brisitsh photographer best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Herbert George Ponting was born on March 21, 1870, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. From…

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Herbert Ponting.  Skua Gull and chick, 1911. 

British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, covering the period 1910-11 (Photograph album)

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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 29th May 1923

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Tuesday 29th May

Dined with Lady Ornamore and Browne.¹ She is supposed to be raving but I thought her and her dinner merely a trifle ‘Pont Street’!² I was between Lady Hermione Herbert³ and Lady Mildred FitzGerald.⁴ . . . . I fled to the Embassy Club⁵ to join Paul of Serbia et alii. He and the P of Wales have been great friends all this spring and telephone constantly. The P’s car is fitted up with an electric automatic cocktail mixer. He and Paul take Mrs Dudley Ward⁶ to dine and dance at the Embassy Club. When she refuses I see him dining sadly at Buck’s Club in a blue dinner jacket with his éminence grise, the irresistible Fruity Metcalfe.⁷ Will he be the Lord Farquhar⁸ of the next reign?

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1. Olwen Verena Ponsonby (1876-1927), daughter of the 8th Earl of Bessborough, married in 1901 Geoffrey Henry Browne-Guthrie (1861-1927), 3rd Lord Ornamore and Browne and 1st Baron Mereworth.

2. Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited (1945), uses the term to indicate slightly ‘common’ behaviour by members of the upper classes; Lady Julia Flyte regards it as ‘Pont Street’ to wear a signet ring.

3. Lady Hermione Gwladys Herbert (1900-95), daughter of the 4th Earl of Powis, married in 1924 Roberto Lucchesi-Palli, 11th Duca della Grazia (1897-1979).

4. Lady Mildred Murray (1878-1969), daughter of the 7th Earl of Dunmore, married in 1919 Sir John FitzGerald Bt, MC (1884-1957), 21st Knight of Kerry.

5. Then the most exclusive nightclub in London, in Bond Street, patronised by royalty, the aristocracy and stage stars.

6. Winifred May ‘Freda’ Birkin (1895-1983), married in 1913 William Dudley Ward MP; she was mistress of the Prince of Wales from 1918 until supplanted by Mrs Simpson in 1934.

7. See entry for 14th April 1923 and footnote.

8. Horace Brand Farquhar (1844-1923), financier, had been Master of the Household to Edward VII and Steward of the Household to George V until 1922. For services rendered to both monarchs he was created a baron in 1901, advanced to a viscountcy in 1917 and an earldom in 1922. After his death he was revealed to be bankrupt. Metcalfe might well have performed similar services to Edward VIII as monarch had the King survived more than ten and a half months.

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Telling the story of Antarctica through 100 objects

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Telling the story of Antarctica through 100 objects

The 250th anniversary of the first documented crossing of the Antarctic circle is being marked with a new book that traces the continent’s history via 100 artefacts from around the world

Humans 28 December 2022

By Alison Flood

Herbert Ponting/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images

THE first documented crossing of the Antarctic circle was made on 17 January 1773 by James Cook on the HMS Resolution. Now, 250 years later, Jean de Pomereu and Daniella McCahey are marking its anniversary in Antarctica: A history in 100 objects, a book that tells the story of the continent via 100 photos and artefacts from around the world.

The main image is an iconic photograph taken from a grotto in an iceberg in 1911 by Herbert Ponting (pictured below). Ponting was the first professional photographer to travel to Antarctica, after being invited by Robert Falcon Scott to join his ill-fated expedition. The ship is the Terra Nova and the men are geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and meteorologist Charles Wright.

Herbert Ponting in Antarctica in 1910

Herbert Ponting/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images

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Pictured above are the South Pole Telescope and BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The telescope helped to capture the first image of a supermassive black hole in 2019.

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Leather goggles to protect against snow blindness, made during Roald Amundsen’s 1910-1912 Antarctic expedition, are shown above left. Pictured to the right of them are mittens knitted by Edith “Jackie” Ronne during an expedition in 1946-48. Ronne was one of the first two women to winter in Antarctica as part of a geographical expedition.

G. H. Mumm & Cie

The  image above shows Ernest Gourdon and Paul Pléneau sharing a bottle of champagne in July 1904. This was intended to promote Mumm Cordon Rouge, since the Mumm family was a sponsor of the trip.

Pablo de León/University of North Dakota

A spacesuit tested in Antarctica in 2011 for possible use on Mars. (pictured above).

Sebastian Copeland

A humpback whale skeleton (pictured above) reconstructed by conservationist and film-maker Jacques Cousteau on King George Island in 1972-73, to raise awareness of whaling.

Frédéric Perin/Météo France

An anemometer from a 1908-10 expedition.

Pictured above is a New Zealand $5 note commemorating Edmund Hillary, whose team was the first to reach the South Pole using overland vehicles, in 1958.

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The 1602 Kunyu Wanguo Quantu map from China, (pictured above) featuring a vast “Terra Australis” with the inscription “Few have reached these southern regions. So the things are not explored yet”.

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Coryphaenoides lecointei, a fish specimen collected in the Antarctic on 15 March 1899 (pictured above).

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INDIES 75 GREATEST WORLD BATSMEN (TEST + ODI CRICKET COMBINED) OF ALL TIME (150+ yrs) !

Given that ckt-viewing has traditionally been one of the most occupying & engaging activities of the culture as well as pastime, of more than a handful of top nations of the world, for atleast the past ¾ century, that we know of via video footage, we at Indies landed up on an exciting idea of compiling a most comprehensive list of the Greatest 75 World Batsmen (Test + ODI cricket combined) Of All Time! This idea of a combined (Test + ODI) list seemed the most compelling to Indies, given it’s cricketing outlook/ideology of considering Test match cricket to essentially be 2 100 over-a—side games clubbed together & carrying forward from one to the other, at end of which one side OUGHT to win. And so players with a solid yet winning game, contributing towards win of their side, thru their careers, across eras, continents, continental playing conditions, & different legendary oppositions, in both the (longer) formats, mostly make the cut! PS. Also included in this greatest of all cricket lists, are those first-class batsmen, who despite less opportunities on intl circuit given political or other climes of times, stacked up such huge numbers, displaying such high skill sets, broke their way into this list, even via back door route. And fairly & squarely at that! And criteria of ranking, that also partly & most weightily reflects this aspect, broadly including factors like: 1. Technical skill set 2. Physical/Statistical contribution to the game, given their era & conditions of play. 3. Aesthetic cultural value to the connoisseur. & 4. Their contribution to the legacy of the game. And here it is! 1.Sachin Tendulkar 2.Don Bradman 3.Rahul Dravid 4.Mohammad Azharuddin 5.Brian Lara 6.Gary Sobers 7.Viv Richards 8.Wally Hammond 9.Mohinder Amarnath 10.Virender Sehwag 11.Zaheer Abbas 12.Vijay Merchant 13. George Headley 14.Saeed Anwar 15.Sunil Gavaskar 16.Vijay Hazare 17.Sanath Jayasuriya 18.Martin Crowe 19.Clive Lloyd 20.Javed Miandad 21.VVS Laxman 22.Desmond Haynes 23.Kumara Sangakkara 24.Hashim Amla 25.David Warner 26.Jacques Kallis 27.Ricky Ponting 28.Gordon Greenidge 29.Greg Chappell 30.David Gower 31.Adam Gilchrist 32.Aravinda de Silva 33.Sourav Ganguly 34.Quinton de Kock 35.Kane Williamson 36.Dimuth Karunaratne 37.Denis Compton 38.Len Hutton 39.Mark Waugh 40.David Boon 41.Michael Bevan 42.Ross Taylor 43.Angelo Mathews 44.Navjot Singh Sidhu 45.Geoff Marsh 46.Mahela Jayawardene 47.Dean Jones 48.Alastair Cook 49.Arjuna Ranatunga 50.Kepler Wessels 51.Inzamam-ul-Haq 52.Graham Gooch 53.Matthew Hayden 54.Glenn Turner 55.Mohammad Yousuf 56.Mike Hussey 57.Virat Kohli 58.Steve Waugh 59.Marcus Trescothick 60.AB De Villiers 61.Dinesh Chandimal 62.Steve Smith 63.Ken Barrington 64.Colin Cowdrey 65.Joe Root 66.Martin Love 67.Lindsay Hassett 68.Clyde Walcott 69.KS Ranjitsinhji 70.Bob Simpson 71.Barry Richards 72.Graeme Pollock 73.Frank Worrell 74.Herbert Sutcliffe 75.WG Grace

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Herbert George Ponting

The Ramparts of Mount Erebus

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