My Photo scholarship 2011 entry https://journals.worldnomads.com/lake_baikal/ Wed, 8 Apr 2026 14:58:34 GMT World Nomads Adventures Lake Baikal, Siberia, is the deepest and oldest lake in the world. During winter it is covered with ice of almost 1 m thick, sealing its 1600 m depth of water and its more than 1.000 endemic species from the outside world. For the last decade a collaborative project between Russia and Switzerland aims to shed light to the water dynamics of the lake. Every March, when the lake is ice covered, a group of scientists and locals get together to recover and re-install scientific instruments that monitor the depths of the South-West tip of the lake. The conditions are hard and often people have to work barehanded at temperatures ranging from -20 C to -10 C. The equipment is primitive, a reminiscence of the Soviet Union era. With this set of pictures I want to document the effort of these people to explore one of the world’s natural wonders with a very limited budget but plenty of willpower. I was very lucky to join the expedition last March as part of my studies and I was amazed both by the beauty of the lake and by the people working on the project. I always carry a camera on me and try to document what I experience. Every place has a story to tell, either through its people or through small details in the surroundings. I am definitely a good and collaborative listener and an enthusiastic learner. As a physicist I am trying to understand how the world works, as an international educator I am trying to communicate with the world hidden behind the eyes of each person and as an amateur photographer I want to convey these experiences to others. I am really eager to spend time with Mr Jason Edward, learning by doing next to an expert would be an invaluable experience, something that can give to me a first taste of the professional world of photography. https://journals.worldnomads.com/lake_baikal/photos/31450/Russian-Federation/Lake-Baikal Travel Russian Federation lake_baikal https://journals.worldnomads.com/lake_baikal/photos/31450/Russian-Federation/Lake-Baikal#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/lake_baikal/photos/31450/Russian-Federation/Lake-Baikal Mon, 7 Nov 2011 05:14:00 GMT 0