Starting the new year off surfing Witches Rock
#endlesssummer #puravida
(at Witches Rock, Costa Rica)
Travel
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2015 | A Year in Review
Greetings from Costa Rica! Costa Rica has been on my bucket list for quite some time so it’s wonderful to be relaxing and writing here as 2015 comes to a close. This year has been one of the most fulfilling and memorable years and looking back I am grateful and my heart is full.
One of the major highlights this year was my time as Photographer in Residence onboard the M/S Expedition ship in Antarctica twice this year, at the end and the beginning of the Antarctic season. It has been my long time dream to visit Antarctica ever since I was in 4th grade, and Antarctica forever changed me and left an impression on me. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced so much raw, untouched beauty, and Antarctica is out of this world and like no other place on earth. Antarctica was also my 7th and final continent. It’s crazy that I was there just 11 days ago!
I also had a blast and learned a lot freelancing for The New York Times, and working on the JR art piece that graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine, Walking New York issue. New York continues to surprise me, and I’m lucky to call it home.
This year I spent over 6 months on the road, which was exciting, tiring, and difficult at times. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to travel and create some of my most cherished memories with some of my loved ones and dear friends this year. I am reminded that life is about relationships and building community and making moments with the people that you love.
Next year I’m excited to do an extended residency in Berlin and visit South Georgia and Antarctica again onboard the M/S Expedition.
Thanks for following along and for allowing me to share some of my images and stories this year. I’m thankful for my clients, loved ones, and friends who support me and allow me to do what I love everyday. Wishing you love, light, and peace in 2016 and beyond.
The photos above are my top 10 of 2015, curated out of 40,000 images, with captions below.
All My Best,
Reuben
1. Josefina, “Man on Wire” redefined, Salar De Uyuni, Bolivia
2. A morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the Milky Way over the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile
3. Breaching humpback whale, Antarctica
4. Hiking Neko Harbor, Antarctica
5. Iceberg, Antarctica
6. Antarctic light bounce
7. Breaching great white shark, South Africa
8. Recently circumcised junior Maasai warriors, Tanzania
9. Iceberg, Antarctica
10. 12:50 AM, Camping on Rongé Island, Antarctica
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Learning about coffee from Don Juan, 78 years old, Costa Rican coffee plantation owner
#makeportraits #puravida
(at Costa Rica)
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The thing that captivated me about Antarctica this time around is the light. The light is never ending, the magic hours last all night long, and it paints colors unlike anything I have ever seen before.
Antarctica is different and surprising each and every time; it is like no other place on earth.
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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| 12:50 AM |
Scenes from camping on Rongé Island
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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| 10:15 PM |
A tabular iceberg drifts past us in the Ross Sea.
The largest recorded iceberg, B-15, measured 183 miles long by 83 miles wide, larger than the whole island of Jamaica.
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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Adélie penguins take flight
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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A crabeater seal chillin on an ice floe
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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Antarctica has some of the most dramatic and raw landscapes I have ever seen
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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| AROUND MIDNIGHT |
Incredibly grateful for another year in the books, quite possibly the most memorable
#antarcticaordie #nofilter
(at Antarctic)
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Antarctica never disappoints, especially when it comes to the ice.
I’ll be sharing more images this week from my most recent trip to the Antarctic.
#antarcticaordie
(at Antarctic)
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Carla, filmmaker
Antarctica 2015
#makeportraits #antarcticaordie
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My current home base, looking pretty as usual. Doing some last minute prep before leaving for Antarctica in a few hours.
This will be my fourth trip to The Great White Continent as Photographer in Residence on the G Expedition ship, and I’m absolutely excited.
#antarcticaordie
(at Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina)
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A city frozen in time
(at Rome, Italy)
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Somewhere over the Alps
(at Italy)
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\ You gotta swim
Through nights that won’t end
Swim for your families
Your lovers your sisters
And brothers and friends
You’ve gotta swim
Through wars without cause \
(at Amalfi Coast - Positano)
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Jurassic Park
The roads are narrow and scary as hell but the views are worth it
(at Ravello, Amalfi Coast)
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| 4:40 PM today |
It’s no surprise why people are so mesmerized by this town
(at Amalfi Coast - Positano)
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A beach day in November. I’m not mad about that
(at Amalfi Coast - Positano)
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Buongiorno Positano!
(at Amalfi Coast - Positano)