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MIDWAY V – On route to Midway

Jan Vozenilek — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:02 +0000

Our team has arrived on Midway Island and first batch of photos from our journey here is up on our Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150518695002918.369936.117981432917&type=3&l=118ad1b0a4

Midway Journey III – Poem: Courtship Medley à la Albatross

Victoria Sloan Jordan — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:50:47 +0000

At this moment on Midway Atoll, the juvenile albatrosses are in the throes of their courtship dances. Their nonstop rave is the main source of all the buoyant motion and noise on the island as they seek a bond before flying out to sea to feed for the remainder of the summer. In this poem I’ve attempted to capture the sights and sounds of this ecstatic dancing season.

Courtship Medley à la Albatross

It begins with a prance dance,
a tiptoe head-bob waddle
and a wing fluff. Then, fake a preen,
shake out a sideways
head-breaking shriek,
a chair-leg-floor-scrape scream,
and sidle into a crooked raga
with fast and furious tabla drums,
and applause, applause, wait –

it’s a drill-hammer fixing
a squeaky door behind the beak,
a flanking feather-grab tease
to a show of chocolate origami wings,
quick switcheroo to a bass kazoo,
throw the head up high, trumpet
to blow the clouds from the sky,
it’s a match, it’s a mate, a pact
to hatch an egg, raise a chick,

then bid adieu until next season,
dancing days forever over
in favor of a lifelong bond.

~Victoria Sloan Jordan

photo: kris krug

CBC Interview: Plastic Pollution & The Oceans

kriskrug — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:52:38 +0000

I was interviewed on CBC Radio’s ‘On The Coast’ w/ Stephen Quinn this week. Here’s the audio transcript set to some of my behind-the-scenes photos of the filming of the Midway Documentary.

Photography Ethics

Manuel Maqueda — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:30:06 +0000

The amount of plastic objects that we are finding inside of the albatross carcasses that cover Midway Island is so shocking that it might be hard to believe.

As soon as we landed on the island, we all agreed to adhere to a strict work ethic that is summarized in these three rules:

No plastic added. We never add any additional plastic to any images or compositions. What you’ll see it what was there.
No rearranging. The plastic contents of the rib cages are not rearranged in any way.
OK to remove. We allow ourselves to occasionally remove from the frame a few objects that might obstruct the view, such as twigs, feathers, grass leaves, or pieces of plastic from the top layer.

Chris Jordan explains these rules in more detail in the following video.