Polar bear on Arctic ice-flow

A beautiful shot with very nice lighting, Rick!

Compliments for this wonderful and difficult capture, my...impavid friend!!! Ah, compliments also to the model!!!

Thanks Ruud and Mau ... quite a thrill to be hundreds of miles from land in this hostile, seemingly barren, environment and to come across these magnificent warm blooded carnivores. They were themselves were curious and impavid when our ship turned up in their world of ice.

Great shot!  And thanks for teaching me the word impavid!  Rick, would you mind telling me a bit more about where/how you shot the polar bears?  Thanks so much.

Hi Christal,

These shots of polar bears were taken on a photo expedition to the arctic organized by "Shoot the Light". We had to sail more than 82 degrees north to find the ice and these shots were taken from the ship. We found quite a few solitary adult bears in the vast expanse of ice, but unfortunately no mothers with their cubs. The bears are very curious and once they had spotted our ship they would come over to investigate.