WILD AND FREE / / We were very lucky with our bear sightings around Spitzbergen in the Scandinavian Arctic, which allowed us to get some nice close-up shots. These cubs were around 19 months old and still very playful. / / / (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
This was the best day of our Artic trip, we were so lucky to spend hours with this polar bear mum and cubs (there were actually two cubs but the other is out of shot). This cub was around seven months old and full of joy! / I really like the tender love the cub shows for its mum. / / (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
WILD AND FREE / / As I said on my “Polar Love” image, this was the best day of our Arctic trip. We were so lucky to spend hours with this mum and cubs as they moved around the ice flows. These cubs were around seven months old and full of joy – although they did not seem all that keen to follow mum this time! / / The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hut! (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Polar Bear mum having a rest from the cubs! / / (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
WILD AND FREE / / Polar Bear mum and her two cubs. / / (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
WILD & FREE / / We were very lucky with our bear sightings at Spitsbergen in the Scandinavian Arctic which allowed us to get some nice close-up shots. These cubs were around 7 months old, and loved to copy mum! / / (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
WILD AND FREE / / Polar Bear mum and her two cubs together on an ice floe. Not sure what they have seen? / / (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Polar Bear mum and cubs relax on an ice floe. / / The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hunt! / / (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Canon 350 D 17-40 mm lens. Winter landscape with sunset in fog.
These cubs were about 7 months old and very playful, but not just now! We were very lucky with our bear sightings and I was able to get some good close-up shots. Still have to use a big lens though! / / (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Polar Bear mum and her two cubs cuddle up together on an ice floe. (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / >< / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
WILD & FREE / / Polar Bear mum and cubs resting on an ice floe. / A bit cold on your bum if you ask me!! / / The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hut! / / (Spitzbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Polar Bear mum and her two cubs rest together on an ice floe. / / The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hunt! (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Mindscape is a mental or psychological scene or area of the imagination. The word is most suitable to the filed of psychology. Mindscape has two words combined in such a way that the meaning goes beyond it – Mind and Escape… It can be translated as a Mind that wants to escape or a Mind that is in route of escaping. This adventure can be in the sense of reality or in spiritual world. / Depression sufferers escape from facts, hallucinates escape from reality, psychotics and neurotics escape from many other forms of life. We usually state that they are people who require help so that they can live an ordinary life. But who is to decide what is normal and what is abnormal? If ones can see the other side of horizon, according to them they deem the facts strongly that they hold about life, oneself and reality. They believe they are the right ones who are amongst wrong people. Are you one of them? I tend to assume we all are, one way or another. Online Galleries: / Surrealism art prints / Fantasy digital art wallpapers / Modern artists surreal pictures / 2d3d graphic design software / 3ds models max software
Female Arctic Wolf Head Study.. Acrylic on Panel
WILD & FREE / / Polar bear mother praying for some ice so she may hunt to feed her cubs. / / The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hut! (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / /
Canon EOS 450D Ef 50mm / Tv 1/15sec / Av f/1.8 / ISO 200 / Converted form RAW / Lightroom 2 + Photoshop CS4 Top10 in Wildlife Challenge by The Addicted Photographer Group / Top10 in 100% Animals by ! 100% ! group / Winner in Wild Animals Challenge by Shameless Self-Promotion group / Top10 in Your very best by Shameless Self-Promotion Group / Top10 in That one great shot Challenge by The Beginner’s Corner group / Winner in Out of the Ordinary Animals by the Mood & Ambience Group / Top10 in Wildlife Photography at its Best! Challenge by First Things Group / Top10 in Personal masterpiece Challenge by Shameless Self-Promotion Group / Winner in Wild and Free Challenge by All About Your Best Work Group April 2009 Featured in Shameless Self-Promotion Group / 21 Apr 2009 Featured in Animal Photography Group ps. to those of you that the photo is too good to be true- you’re absolutely right, I cheated a little- it was a stuffed fox at a museum, sorry
Spiral Ice Berg When you find ice bergs like this it really takes your breath away! / / Antarctic / / P.S. Can you see the face in the ice?!
WILD & FREE / / Polar bear cubs cuddle-up with each other on an ice floe. What a great sight to see! The sea ice is shrinking at an alarming rate, which has a huge impact for the bears as this is their main hunting ground. More and more bears are being found to have drowned while trying to find the ice, even though they can swim up to sixty miles or so! / / I hope the ice does not completely vanish and that they always have somewhere to hut! (Spitsbergen – Scandinavian Arctic) / /
Freehand Airbrush – Acrylics on Panel
Many thanks to © Miro Schaap for source. photography.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. Blue, green, gray, white or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days have I watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time. Sometimes at twilight the gray vapors of the horizon have parted to grant me glimpses of the ways beyond; and sometimes at night the deep waters of the sea have grown clear and phosphorescent, to grant me glimpses of the ways beneath. And these glimpses have been as often of the ways that were and the ways that might be, as of the ways that are; for ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. (H. P. Lovecraft)
“The Snowy Owl” was shot at Newfoundland’s Salmonier Nature Park Camera Model Canon EOS 50D / Shooting Mode Manual Exposure / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/180 / Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6 / ISO Speed 100 / Lens Sigma 135-400mm / Focal Length 363.0mm For more information please visit Brian’s Homepage or on Flickr
This is one of my personal favorites. Two of my own photographs (the bears are from the zoo, and the sunset was taken outside my home) layered in PhotoSuite III. Featured In / Who Are You To Judge? / All Soft and Cuddlies / Sleeping Creatures / All Original Fusion / The Scavenger Hunt / Image Writing
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