Although it is only February, Spring has arrived for the albatross on Midway. It’s birthing season and hundreds of thousands of chicks are hatching over the next two weeks on every available square meter of island. It’s an ecstatic time and we’ve spent our first few days photographing and filming the cuteness, buoyed by the [...]
Chris lifts an albatross chick back into it’s nest
Chris takes us for a walk, outside our house on Midway Island
We’ve been taking lots of behind the scenes photos, but with the limited time we have and the very slow internet, uploading them to the blog is taking far too much time. We’ve been uploading them all to our Facebook page under Midway Journey. Here are the direct links to the photos – these should [...]
A check in from Chris Jordan on our first morning on Midway Island
From Honolulu to Midway – this short video shows the process of how we get our selves and all our gear to Midway Island
We have just setup a live-stream through www.livestream.com Please visit for a broadcast of some of our past short films and feel free to comment, ask questions and leave your feedback. The link is here: www.livestream.com/midway midway on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free We will be doing a LIVE broadcast from Midway Island during [...]
Dear Friends, Here we go again, schlepping a small mountain of photo/video/sound recording gear back out to remote postage-stamp-sized Midway Island that has captured our hearts and imaginations in its powerful vortex. This time, if all goes well, we will witness and film a beautiful sight: the hatching of 300,000 baby albatrosses from their eggs. [...]
Here is a short clip from our most recent trip to Midway. It combines footage of a dying albatross with a scene of a baby fairy tern being fed and protected by its mother. We call it “A Dream of a Dying Albatross (Return to the Mother).” The singer is Baaba Maal, from the “One [...]
