Background
Herbert George Ponting was born on March 21, 1870, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
1912
Herbert George Ponting with a cinematograph in Antarctica, January
Gold Medal (RGS)
Polar Medal
1905
Robert Falcon Scott
Lawrence Edward Grace Oates
(His book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on...)
His book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew onboard and at camp but also provides numerous photos depicting the Antarctic landscape. Ponting also recorded, both in print and on film, habits of the native penguins and seals, and shares stories of his arrival at volcanic Mount Erebus, nearly losing a team of dogs in a crevasse, and escaping a harrowing run-in with a pack of killer whales. Ponting also tells of the struggle to survive in the extreme conditions at the pole, and how Scott died with two of his crewmen shortly after achieving their goal.
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Herbert George Ponting was born on March 21, 1870, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
A self-taught photographer, Herbert Ponting was educated in England at Carlisle and Preston grammar schools and at Leyland.
From the age of eighteen, Herbert Ponting was employed at a local bank branch in Liverpool, where he stayed for four years. That time was long enough to convince him that he did not wish to follow in the profession of his father, and attracted to stories of the American West, he moved to California where he worked in mining.
Originally a rancher in California, Herbert Ponting joined a West Coast gold rush and became the manager of a mine in 1898. In 1901 he was commissioned by Leslie’s Weekly to do a tour of the Far East, recording his impressions with a camera. He took stereoviews of and reported on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, and afterward continued to travel around Asia, working in Burma, Korea, Java, China and India taking stereoviews and working as a freelance photographer for English-speaking periodicals.
After the war, Herbert Ponting traveled widely in the Far East, Spain, and Switzerland, and in 1909 Captain Scott appointed Herbert Ponting the official photographer for Scott's expedition to the South Pole. In 1913 he gave his famous lecture "With Captain Scott in the Antarctic" over 1,000 times in Philharmonic Hall. In 1918 he joined the Spitsbergen Expedition. During his Antarctic explorations, Herbert Ponting also took motion pictures, which resulted in the documentary 93 deg. South (1933).
(His book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on...)
Herbert Ponting was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS).
Quotes from others about the person
Herbert Ponting wrote in his journal: "Of the many admirable points about Ponting's work, the most notable is his eye for a picture and the mastery he has acquired of ice subjects. The composition of his pictures is extraordinarily good. He seems to know by instinct the exact value of foreground and middle distance, and of the introduction of 'life,' while with the more technical skill he emphasizes the subtle shadows of the snow and reproduces its wonderfully transparent texture. He is an artist in love with his work."
In 1895 Herbert Ponting married a California woman, Mary Biddle Elliott; their daughter Mildred was born in Auburn, California in January 1897.
Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 - c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901-1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913.
(b. 1897)
Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 1880 - 17 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the Terra Nova Expedition when he walked from his tent into a blizzard.
