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Polar Bears

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Posted by Paul Everett on August 13, 2007 at 4:17 PM
Polar Bears
Am just back from Svarlbard and trawling through my images. Had some great Polar Bear sightings. This one was taken from our ship, the Vavilov, about 7 one morning as we slowly negotiated the ice flows in Freemansundet. We saw this family and another straight after and were with them for about 4 hours.

Paul

Canon 20D + Sigma 500 f4.5
Posted by Elliott Neep on August 13, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Always great to see polar bears on here. A beautiful pose with the bears together. Would probably have a look at cropping either tighter into the bears or a panoramic crop in order to lose the water flow in the top of the frame. I hope you weren't on that boat that was hit by falling ice! Thanks for sharing :toast: :toast:
Posted by Marko Trebušak on August 14, 2007 at 1:27 AM
Great pose, Paul! It’s always good to see interaction between animals. And contrary to Elliot, I like kind of a "wildlife in landscape" image. Makes much more sense of a place than usual tight thing.

Cheers,
Marko
Posted by John Chapman on August 14, 2007 at 3:43 AM
Hi Paul great picture I like the pose and the enviromental feeling in this picture. :toast:
John
Aberdeen
Posted by Andy Astbury on August 14, 2007 at 3:58 AM
Lovely image Paul - I like it as it is without cropping :toast:

But if you look at the water closely you'll see the small ice 'bits' are all pointing downhill to the left - a bit of clockwise rotation is needed :wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Paul Everett on August 14, 2007 at 4:33 AM
Thanks for the comments, it does need a little work I think. Seems to have a bit of colour cast on here that I didn't see at home on PS. Will rotate it a little, didn't spot that it was "leaning" a little!

Cheers

Paul
Posted by Paula Graham on August 14, 2007 at 5:50 AM
How exciting it must be to see those great animals in the wild.
Nice shot, I too like the inclusion of a bit of the environs they live in.
Posted by Dave Courtenay on August 14, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Hi Paul
A great experience i am sure-Like it as is-very cool image :toast:
Posted by Paul Ashton on August 14, 2007 at 4:13 PM
A truly beautiful image. Like the composition and the exposure (not so easy) is just perfect.
Posted by PhilH on August 14, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Very nice, not an easy exposure, you don't give details... compositionaly I think I would have prefered for the heads to have been placed around the upper right third.... also prob another couple of rounds of USM for presentation on the web.

Must have been a fantastic experience....

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Stuart McCrae on August 15, 2007 at 3:12 PM
As already stated,very good exposure,I really like the comp as is.


Stu.