Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gorgeous. Historic. Humorous. "Ice and water" - Breathtaking a note off the iPad, George On Sep 19, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote: > 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