I've long joked that this adventurous, glamorous life that many people think I live would likely bore many of them to death. Yet I've nothing to complain about; it suits me well.
JB: When you say that your life would bore many people to death, do you mean because you spend so much time setting up or waiting for a shot? Or are you referring to something else?
IM: I spend a lot of time at home, living in a fairly low-key manner. I don't go to movies, go out to eat often, or do a lot of other things many people I know do for excitement/ stimulation. As such, I imagine many would find my life boring. Yet I am quite content.
JB: Got it. What haven't we talked about yet that you'd like to?
IM: Shall we discuss thermo-nuclear physics?
JB: Umm, no, but thanks for offering. We've gotten this far and I realized that we haven't talked yet about your most recent book. Would you, please?
Cover, 'ICE At The Ends of The Earth'
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IM: ICE At the Ends of the Earth (ISBN 978-0-9746707-9-9), with a foreword Jean-Michel Cousteau, is a compilation of 150 of my favorite color photographs taken on two trips to the Arctic and a dozen to Antarctica between 2005 and 2011.
The problem I always have with my profession is that I am trying to capture a three-dimensional world using a two-dimensional media. No place else I have ever been is this quandary more apparent than the polar regions, for the scope of the high latitudes tends to be gargantuan. Still, I am quite pleased with the images of ice and the wildlife which inhabit these realms.
Here's a link to view the book online.
JB: Great! Go to town, readers! The book is gorgeous. I saw it last weekend at a friend's. A real pleasure talking with you, Ira.
IM: The pleasure's been mine. Thanks for knocking on my door, Joan.
JB: What an adventure it's been. Thanks so much!
Gentoo penguin chicks, Petermann Island, Antarctica
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