Marty’s photo of the day #4615: This is the Professor Multanovskiy, photographed from Antarctica’s shore, as giant snowflakes drifted down. I shot this photo in 2003, while working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents.

According to an app that tracks ships, the Professor Multanovskiy is currently along the Russian coast, just north of North Korea, and it’s sporting a new blue paint job.