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The third in hats's series of BLAST cruises. I kept Elsethea, because she was already too established to ignore her.
It's actually a sister of Elsethea's: if you compare the BLAST logos, you will notice that this sea serpent is shorter
than the other ones. The serpents in the ice just don't grow as tall!
I used a real image as a background, a photo that I took somewhere halfway through the cruise on one of three sunny days during the entire mission. The result is a beautiful logo, one of my favorites, but it is a pain to print it: the print file from CorelDraw exceeds 360 mb (I killed it eventually), and even the bitmap file from PhotoPaint takes up 72 mb and about an hour to print on our color laser. This was a mission in the Antarctic Ocean, we spent about 6.5 weeks zig-zagging through the ice, on the hunt for methyl bromide (again). See Jürgen, packed in 10 layers of clothing at McMurdo. This logo is the first one where The little map shows our wiggly cruisetrack, one of Antarctica's inhabitants (totally funny creatures!) and the iceberg has a plot of the methyl bromide saturation anomaly on it. Note the reflections of the sun (I used a star filter to create that hexagonal pattern), which repeat on a line that ends in the NOAA logo! Here's some more info on the cruise: click here and select the BLAST III homepage.
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