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Author Archives: Chris Jordan
MIDWAY JOURNEY II – First Impressions
Dear Friends and Followers of Midway Journey, Thank you for your patience as we have taken a few days to find our bearings and connect to the Internet. We are astonished and delighted to find ourselves back here again on remote Midway Atoll. The tiny island is now covered with several hundred thousand fledgling albatrosses [...]
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Return to Midway
Dear friends and followers of Midway Journey, As my team and I prepare to travel back to Midway Atoll, I cannot help but note the macabre juxtaposition of the environmental disaster that is happening in the Pacific Ocean, with the one that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. The two phenomena are oddly parallel, [...]
Trailside encounter
Early one morning I was out photographing along a meadow trail strewn with decaying albatross carcasses. The sun had just risen, and my camera was set up to photograph the exposed body cavity of an albatross chick filled with multicolored plastic. I heard the sound of a motor approaching, and looked up to see one [...]
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Reflections from Midway
Dear friends, I thought I’d check in at the halfway point of our trip. First of all, greetings! I wish I could snap my fingers and you would all appear here with us. In terms of my photographic work so far, my primary feeling is one of anxious urgency. What I am seeing through my [...]
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Summary of Day 3, by Chris Jordan
Video by Bill Weaver, voiceover by Chris Jordan
First Steps on the Island
Hello friends, reporting in after our first 24 hours. We made it to Midway! What hit me first when we landed was the incredible color of the lagoon that surrounds the island—a brilliant shade of impossibly luminescent turquoise, ringed by the deep sapphire blue of the Pacific all around. The color is so strong that [...]
MIDWAY JOURNEY II – Junk Food III – Looking into the Mirror