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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2015, 17:02:46 »
Wonderful image of the arctic Fox !

a bit puzzled how the face is sharp and the rest is motion blurred , well done !
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2015, 13:17:11 »
Thanks a lot everybody!
The Polar Fox in motion is actually one of my own favorites for quite some time, an image I'm very happy with myself.
The motion blur is just from me panning the camera at the right moment (and a little luck), I had to take about 25-30 pictures to finally get what I wanted.


Next up is a Polar Fox which is not quite that white yet, in other words; he has some of his summer fur intact.
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2015, 13:24:22 »
Next up is a pano made out of three shots, taken with the D3X and a 70-200 2.8 VR II. It's a view from over Isfjorden, Oscar II Land and The Protektormountain.
As this still is one of my first pano's I still have a long way to go before I'm able to stitch an image seamlessly.. (done in Lr CC)
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2015, 19:49:01 »
Excellent (in particular the first fox)! Was it easy to find the Arctic Foxes?  Hope to visit Svalbard myself soon. Arctic foxes happen to be among my favourite animals, but they are not so easy to localize in  southern Norway (like Dovre).
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2015, 20:46:05 »
Very nice pictures!
Was Svalbard ever viking-land, as someone suggested?
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2015, 20:47:59 »
No. It wasn't. Iceland and Greenland and Orkney and Shetland and .... were.

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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2015, 08:42:02 »
Patrick - the running fox and the polar fox, both the photos are mind-blowing. The colours in the second fox image is magical. Looking forward to see more! Just wondering at what distance you took these shots?
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2015, 08:50:56 »
I really am enjoying this thread - please keep sharing more images
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2015, 12:55:53 »
I wonder if the arctic fox on Svalbard is the same species as the arctic fox ("mountain fox") on mainland Norway? In my youth I once saw one in the mountains in the Swedish border area north of the arctic circle. It was summertime, so it had darker fur.
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2015, 13:08:36 »
Same species. This fox has several recognised subspecies, but there is no mention of a specific Svalbard race in the literature I skimmed though. However, the fur has a colour variation from genetic diversity and the "blue" furs are avidly sought after and specimens with this kind of furs have been breed for their furs.

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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2015, 21:28:32 »
That first shot is unbelievable! The rest of the shot are really great too, the second one shows how isolated a place it seems to be and the colors in the third is just wonderful. Thanks for sharing, more to come?
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #26 on: October 01, 2015, 22:58:50 »
Just to mention a few words about distances and how hard it is to actually comprehend how large the landscape are on Svalbard, this picture is shoot right to the river Adventfjorden's outlet, one of Longyearbyens harbours and main"beachline" (if we can call it so). From Adventfjorden and straight over, there's more or less 3 Km at its shortest, to Adventtoppen which is the mountain ridge we have to the left in the pic, the distance is approximately 5.22Km, while the neighbour mountain Hjortfjellet (or Deermountain literally translated) is 5.69Km.

In the background next to Hjortfjellet with the most snow on it we can glimpse Birkafjellet with the longest distance of 9.34Km, all the way to the right we have Dirigenten with a distance of 8.74Km from where I stood and took the picture.

So, in other words, without a reference point like a cabin or anything to scale the surroundings by it is pretty hard to understand and comprehend how majestic and enormous the nature and landscape around us actually is.

Have a nice evening everybody!

(I'll be posting more in the coming weekend on the topic!)
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #27 on: October 01, 2015, 23:00:57 »
Mountains, Mountains and more Mountains..
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2015, 23:19:34 »
Patrick, these two are fascinating. Out of this world.
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Re: Spitsbergen Svalbard, Arctic Norway, 2015, part 1.
« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2015, 19:25:38 »
Magic beauty!
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