Return To Svalbard

Gallery: WildlifePosted September 13, 2013348 views12 comments

To celebrate our return to Svalbard for another trip on M V Stockholm, here is an image from or last trip 4 years ago.
Hand held from moving small icebreaker, quite stable really.
EOS 1D MkIII
500mm F4
F7.1
ISO 800
1/4000

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Martin Dunn on September 13, 2013 at 11:23 AM

Lovely shot Ken.
Like the fact that the upright bear is looking at you. The water dripping from wet fur adds a nice touch.
Composition wise I'm not sure whether it looks better cropped at the bottom to remove the foreground water.

I'm confused though... what part of Africa is Svalbard?

Registered on February 20, 2013, 198 Posts, 1011 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Clinch on September 13, 2013 at 6:17 PM

Great shot, the two different poses really adds a sense of action to the image. The composition enhances this, though as Martin mentioned, maybe a bit of the bottom could be cropped out so the little bit of ice on the right is gone.

Registered on January 5, 2013, 37 Posts, 261 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Archer on September 13, 2013 at 11:37 PM

Sweet Photo Ken

Very nice poses and composition, I really like the texture of the wet and dripping fur of the standing bear.

Have fun on your next adventure!

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on September 14, 2013 at 12:20 AM

Outstanding photo. A little more separation so the bears weren't aligned might be slightly better compositionally but as their poses are so different this is also very nice. I like all that ice in the slate blue water, with global warming we can't take it for granted any more. Nice comfy icebreaker and polar bears to photograph, sounds pretty sweet to me.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on September 14, 2013 at 12:35 AM

Thanks everybody for your kind comments.
I am looking forward to being even colder than in Hwange!

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Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on September 15, 2013 at 10:56 PM

You have a winner here, Ken! To get two polar bears together, with one standing up and the other on all fours.....wow!

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on September 18, 2013 at 8:29 PM

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on September 18, 2013 at 10:17 PM

Sweet poses from this pair - fine detail and comp -
Congrats on the WP!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Johan Malmros on September 21, 2013 at 10:26 AM

Congratulations on the WP. Well deserved.
What a sight and you sure did it justice.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 24, 2013 at 8:47 AM

Congrats on EP!
Wonderful image !
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on September 24, 2013 at 8:47 AM

Congrats on EP!
Wonderful image !
Jagdeep Rajput

Registered on April 29, 2008, 686 Posts, 2857 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on October 3, 2013 at 3:17 AM

Many thanks for the WP.

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