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Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott 's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). [1]
Mar 20, 2022 · In early 1893 Ponting, after a stormy trans-Atlantic crossing, travelled by train to the so-called ‘Golden State’, where he cultivated peaches and grapes, prospected for minerals, became a ‘crack shot’ and honed his photographic and mountaineering skills, including in Yosemite.
Ponting was a professional photographer and is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition 1910-1913. During his time on the ice, Ponting captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Mar 29, 2024 · The story of his tragic race to the South Pole in 1912 – when Scott was narrowly beaten by the Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen and then died on his return journey – is one of the best known from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
Herbert Ponting was already a world travelling, pioneering photographer and travel writer when, in 1909, he met British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). Impressed with Ponting’s credentials and manner, Scott asked him to document his expedition to the South Pole – the most elusive prize of exploration at that time.
Herbert Ponting is best known as the photographer who made the first set of professional images of the Antarctic. He was recruited by Robert Scott and worked alongside Edward Wilson, a scientist and artist, to record the Terra Nova expedition, its personnel and the wildlife and landscape of the Antarctic.
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Ponting was born in 1870 in Whiltshire, son of Francis William Ponting and his wife Mary Sydenham. He entered banking at the age of eighteen, but did not enjoy it and left the profession. He moved to California where he married Mary Biddle Elliott in 1895 and ran a fruit ranch.
