Twenty years of photographing the far north and south
Expedition journals and photography from South Georgia to Svalbard, and the places in between. Most of them take a while to reach.
Latest from the road
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Orcas of the Salish Sea
Today I’ve booked to find the orcas of the Salish Sea with Wild Whales Vancouver, which departs from Granville Island. The boat departs at…
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Vancouver, British Columbia
It’s an early start this morning for the Amtrak Cascades train to Vancouver, Canada. The train departs Seattle’s King Street Station at 7:45am, which…
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A visit to the Boeing Factory, Seattle
I only have 1 day in Seattle, Washington State, and plan to spend the bulk of it at the Boeing Factory out in Everett,…
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Juneau, Alaska
Today is disembarkation day on Le Soleal. Captain Le Rouzic announced yesterday that we are scheduled to arrive in Juneau, Alaska at 10am on…
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Holgate Glacier, Alaska
Day 2 of Le Soleal’s unplanned stay in port in Seward, Alaska. The vast majority of the passengers are taking chartered catamarans to see…
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Seward, Alaska
We have an unplanned port call on Le Soleal in Seward, Alaska today. Captain Le Rouzic calls another ‘all passenger’ meeting this morning to…
Chris Howarth
I photograph wildlife and landscape in the places that are hard to get to — the Subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula in the south, Svalbard and the Aleutians in the north, and the Kimberley in between.
This site is the written record of those trips, alongside the pictures.
326
journal entries
30+
countries and territories
2026
next expedition — six weeks north, then five months in 2027