Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, Thanks for looking. You are exactly right. Polar Bears have an acute sense of smell and hearing - they can smell seals/walrus from kilometres away, though they have a relatively poor sense of sight. The way you attract Polar Bears to the ship is to hang around on the windward side so that it catches your scent, and then comes close to figure out whether it has found its next meal (-: If they are feeding, and the ship comes close, quite often they pick up the carcass and run away - they assume that the ship is a larger animal hell bent on stealing the meal from them - everything is based on size in these barren lands! The lens is the 70-200 VRII shot at 70mm. In the last shot the carcass is of a Ringed Seal. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > That first polar bear shot is thrilling! I wish I know the focal lengh. > I cant think of other shots I've ever seen which the relationship between > the bear and their environment done so well. > The way he's pointing his nose up like that really is amazing for me. > > He's going "gee the walrus 5 miles SW smells delicious but I kind of like > the wonderful poignancy of that seal 7 miles due west of me I think I'll go > snack on it." > That's what the polar bear is thinking. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:49:38 -0400 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Polar Bears >> >> impressive >> >> ric >> >> >> On Jul 18, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >> >>> The Spitsbergen trip was extremely rich in Polar Bear sightings, >>> including a kill. This is the first installment of Polar Bear Pics. >>> >>> Polarscape in both colour and monochrome: >>> >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120701_0227.jpg.htm>> > l >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120701_0227BW.jpg.h >>> tml >>> >>> Curios Juvenile: >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120701_0223.jpg.htm>> > l >>> >>> Big Boy with Birds: >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120702_0455.jpg.htm>> > l >>> >>> Big Boy with Lunch: >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120702_0465.jpg.htm>> > l >>> >>> Calisthenics: >>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Norway_20120702_0418.jpg.htm>> > l >>> >>> Please see LARGE >>> >>> Comments and criticism, as always, welcome >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information