Antarctica, Part 4: An Audio Slideshow
Filed Under: We’ve spent hours sharing highlights of our Antarctica experience with family, friends and fellow travelers. The result: we get excited, they get excited. And rightfully so — Antarctica is a special place and our experience there was truly memorable in so many dimensions.
Inspired by all of these conversations ourselves, we decided to dabble in a different medium, the audio slideshow, to relate our Antarctica experience in a different way.
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Article Series - A Journey to Antarctica
- Antarctica Update #1: The Drake Passage, From Killer Waves to Killer Whales
- Antarctica, Part 2: Honest Antarctica – Gray Skies, Blue Ice
- Antarctica, Part 3: Penguins, The Key to Happiness and World Peace?
- Antarctica, Part 4: An Audio Slideshow
April 15th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Not only did you guys capture some fantastic images, but you’ve really set the bar for presenting them. This was beautiful, and you incorporated a ton of really great info. Well done!
April 15th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Great stuff – you guys are having a great time and this is a great way to share it!
April 15th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
LOVED IT!!! Antartica is on my must do list and I have traveled with GAP a lot. Glad to be a part of your journey! Thank you for continuously sharing your life with us and getting us excited about travel and educating us at the same time on often very important events and/or matters. Happy traveling!
April 15th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Awesome presentation guys. Can we, your fans, have a video more often?
April 15th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
So. Are you glad you decided to go?
April 15th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Great job. What program(s) did you use to make this audio slide-show? I am a high school teacher in the US and would like to incorporate this into my curriculum. Thanks!
April 16th, 2010 at 9:38 am
That was great. Thanks!
April 16th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Keep the audio slideshows coming – great job!!
April 17th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Oh I loved it! It’s fun to be led through the photos by you both and makes me feel even more like I am able to go on a piece of this journey with you – I learned a lot but you guys were fun to listen to, so it was great!
April 18th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Great presentation, I liked the mixture of interesting information and your personal experience!
April 19th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Hey everyone! Glad you enjoyed this and thanks for the positive feedback on our first audio slideshow! So, we should try and incorporate more audio slideshows into our regular posts?
@Ross: We plan to start incorporating more video clips as well into our posts. Anything else you’d like to see more of here? We appreciate feedback from our readers!
@Leigh: Yes, VERY glad we made the decision to go to Antarctica. We hope our readers haven’t gotten bored of it yet
@Bret: We used Soundslides to make this audio slideshow. This software was recommended to me by the media organization I used to work for in Prague. I haven’t tried other software formats, but I found Soundslides very easy to use and would recommend it.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Thanks so much for sharing your Antarctica adventure! Love, love, love it!!
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:00 am
[...] Antarctica, Part 4: An Audio Slideshow – (Uncornered Market) oh I love this – Audrey and Daniel not only share with you a slide show with heaps of great pictures from their adventure to Antarctica, but they also guide you through each picture via AUDIO, describing everything in such detail – great photos and interesting commentary – thanks for sharing! [...]
May 1st, 2010 at 8:59 pm
It was a lovely slide show. I never felt so excited watching it earlier on any other media.
Soon I can think of planning one of my own.
Thank you so much for all the information and updating this blog.
May 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Excellent! I really like hearing the explanations to the photos
May 23rd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
@Aniruddha @phil: Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the show.
June 6th, 2010 at 8:48 am
beautiful photos and great narration. just stumbled upon your website. it’s amazing!!
June 9th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
@Lilliane: Thanks for stopping by! Glad you enjoyed this audio slideshow. If you’re interested, you can find more photos from Antarctica here: http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/photos/slideshow_set/set/72157624240577740/
December 24th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Wow. I loved your story and slideshow. I have booked to travel on the Antarctic Circle trip on the MS Expedition in February/March 2012. It all looks fantastic and now I’m feeling that nervous excitement even more. Thanks for your insights into what must be an amazing trip. Best wishes for future travels!
December 28th, 2010 at 1:14 am
@Matthew: Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. You will have a terrific time. We’ll look forward to hearing about your adventures aboard the MS Expedition when you return.
August 26th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Aloha Matthew,
Thank You for great series. So beautiful and so fragile.
September 8th, 2011 at 10:11 am
@Joe: Daniel here…actually Audrey and I are the ones who wrote this and were narrating the slideshow. Glad you enjoyed it. Antarctica: vast and fragile for certain.
March 29th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Hello again! I posted number 19 above and returned from the trip three weeks ago. Now here in England, looking back it seems fantastic, barely credible. Like visiting another planet. I loved the MS Expedition too; everyone worked so hard to give us the best experience possible. We all became so spoilt in the dining room!
I had a cabin next door to the Mud Room. The sea wasn’t as rough as your trip, although the waves washed over the porthole a few times.
On one day during a lecture in the Discovery lounge they played a video taken last year from the bridge showing the ship in a huge sea in the Drake. I think it may have been from your trip.
Roald Amundsen said ‘Antarctica is a fairytale’ and now I know first hand what he meant. Paradise Harbour, Danco Island, Half Moon Island – these are names that will always be with me. What a magical, enchanted place.
March 31st, 2012 at 12:24 pm
@Matthew: Thank you so much for taking the time to write back after your trip. Even better, it sounds like you had a terrific time. It is an amazing experience, isn’t it? We try to find the words to describe an Antarctica experience, but it’s difficult.
The video from the bridge would have sent chills if we watched it.
Antarctica, the fairytale. So glad you had a chance to experience it and that you shared your thoughts with us!
April 3rd, 2012 at 3:07 pm
I was told by one of the G Adventures expedition team onboard that they had checked all the tour stats from the different tour companies, along with records for all the scientific expeditions over the years, and they worked out that in the nearly 200 years since we first set foot on the continent only about 750,000 people have ever been to Antarctica. The number who have travelled down to the circle is certainly a lot less. It’s an exclusive club
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April 3rd, 2012 at 3:46 pm
@Matthew: Wow, that is a cool statistic. We’re now members of an elite club, the Circle Club. Looks like we’re in good company!
April 30th, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Great images. Loved watching the slideshow! Would love to experience Antarctica!
May 19th, 2013 at 12:26 pm
@Debbie: Thanks, glad you enjoyed this audio slideshow!