Getting OT here, for sure. Those images are stunning by any measure of beauty and composition, and then to realise the conditions and equipment used to make them. No point-and-shoot self-focussing available... I found a haunting quality in them, knowing what they did not, about the arduous future lying aheadIt is indeed! Then I got a chance to see an exhibit some years ago, complete with views from their own glass-plate negatives, at the Cincinnati Natural History Museum. They had an excellent film describing the voyage shown on a huge wrap-around screen, which gives one a better sense of the enormous ice sheets they were faced with. As well as the still photos there were also portions of movies taken by their photographer, including their ship being crushed by the ice.