Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Henning, The photos I found most fascinating where the cliffs and rock formations created during the centuries of earthquakes & erosions. On many of my assignments to a number of arctic locations from East to west and to the North Pole 1967. :-) So much of the land mass was amazing and eye catching. No question, it's about as barren and void of ground growth of any land areas I've ever been elsewhere on the planet. Looks and sounds like it was a great trip. I wouldn't mind one as a holiday rather than an assignment! Makes shooting pictures far more relaxing when there isn't the pressures of "work!" :-) Truthfully even as an assignment "it" was never "WORK!" Merely varying degrees of fun! And enjoying it all! cheers, ted -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Henning Wulff Sent: September-19-16 11:41 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Arctic full set There are now 83 items in the 'Canadian Arctic 2016' album from our trip in August, including bear pictures. We saw quite a bit of wildlife, but a lot of it was fleeting or hard to identify unless you were watching carefully, as a lot of it was at quite a distance. We saw a couple of bowhead wales, some narwhal, walrusses, various seals, muskox as well as many of the infamous 'muskrocks' which look very similar at great distance. Also a large variety of birds. Most of my wildlife shots were taken with the 100-400 Panasonic-Leica zoom which was an excellent choice for this trip. My next most used lens was the 12-40/2.8 Olympus, then the 7-14 Panasonic and last, mostly because of insufficient reach, the 40-150/2.0 Olympus. I took about 7500 shots on this trip. A UV filter was kept over any lenses that were out when we were in the zodiacs, and the equipment was rinsed off in the shower after any noticeable salt water splashing. Everything worked perfectly. Contrary to Africa, where I have taken full frame shots of lions with a 35mm wideangle, I wouldn't try that on a polar bear. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/Arctic/ Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus