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experience Being in Antarctica is like being on
experience
another planet that’s just all nature.
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I’ve done more than 70 expeditions to As a member of the International League of Conservation

Antarctica, and people always ask me why I keep returning. Photographers, that’s important to me. My main goal is to
There isn’t one specifi c thing that pulls me back, because enhance the experience of the guests, of course, but it’s also
I’ve come to realize that every time I go, something diff erent a chance to create ambassadors for conservation. Yes, I can
is going to happen. You leave without any idea of what that help you take better pictures,
could be — seeing an amazing iceberg, having an encounter but then you go out and show
with an elephant seal, getting a glimpse of an emperor pen- the world what we have in
guin — and it’s that sense of going into the unknown that Antarctica and what we risk los-
makes the whole experience so worthwhile. ing if we don’t protect it.
I say “unknown” because being in Antarctica is like being
on another planet that’s just all nature. When you’re there, — Daisy Gilardini
it’s as if creation happened and then everything just stopped. Photographer and guide
And because internet access is limited, you’re almost totally with One Ocean Expeditions
cut off , which forces you to be in the moment and connect since 2010
with nature. As a photographer on these journeys, I work DAISY GILARDINI/ONE OCEAN EXPEDITIONS
long days, which is physically demanding, but spiritually, my Learn more about One Ocean
mind gets so much energy from the experience. Expeditions’ incredible range of voyages
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