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Sea fog sweeps in along the beams and occasionally an iceberg is illuminated.
From the left, a small, pale full moon is just showing over the clouds. I am on the bridge of the National Science Foundation research icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, approaching the Antarctic Circle along the Antarctic Peninsula. This is my first trip to this southern continent, which I first read about many years ago as a child. It took me an entire career to finally get here, even though I have traveled widely as a nature photographer and spent much time near the other pole, in the arctic. Over the years, my work has taken me from examining the tiny details of nature's design to my current project documenting the climate changes affecting the entire globe.