Herbert George Ponting (Australia), photography

Herbert George Ponting was a photographer and a member of the Terra Nova Expedition, which was led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole in 1910-1913. Ponting was born on March 21, 1870, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, and grew up in Australia.

Ponting's interest in photography began in the early 1890s, and he became a professional photographer in 1895. He worked in a variety of photographic fields, including portrait and landscape photography, but he is best known for his work documenting the Terra Nova Expedition.

Ponting was responsible for recording the day-to-day activities of the expedition, including the scientific work, the sledging journeys, and the life of the crew on board the ship. He also took many photographs of the Antarctic landscape, including the wildlife and the ice formations.

Ponting's photographs of the Terra Nova Expedition are considered some of the most important more... and enduring images of the Antarctic. They were published in a number of books and journals, including "The Great White South" and "The Heart of the Antarctic."

After the expedition, Ponting continued to work as a photographer, but he never returned to Antarctica. He died on February 7, 1935, in London, England, at the age of 64. less...