There is an interesting story behind this photograph. I personally did not see this picture until more than 15 years after I took it. I saw it for the first time on September 7th, 2000. This picture was taken on April 23rd, 1985!

During the process of putting together this journal, I thought it would be more complete if I included the sequence of the rolls of film I shot along with the scanned images. This was a painstaking process of associating each scanned image to the actual negative number. I did not scan every photograph I took during the 11 day journey, but I did scan every picture I took while at the North Pole. So, assigning the North Pole negative numbers to their appropriate scanned images was a simple matter.

But when I got to negative number 14 of roll 6, I couldn't associate it to any of the scanned images. At first, I just thought I forgot to scan in one of my photos. But, to my surprise, the photo did not exist in my Polar Album! In a sense, this was exciting. I was looking at a negative of a picture I had not seen in 15 years! I took the negative to the store I normally have my film developed at and requested a reprint of negative 14. It should be noted that 15 years ago, the standard size print was 3x5. Today, the standard size print is 4x6. Also, 15 years ago, I thought I did a thorough check to verify that each negative had a corresponding print. At that time, I only found 1 negative that was not printed. I don't know how I missed this one.

When the reprint of negative number 14 was ready, I beheld the site that you now see before you. My polar journals and photo album are now (after 15 years) complete.