After leaving Kvitoya, we sailed all “night” to find the sea ice and I woke up a little after 5:00AM and wandered up on deck to see if we had found the ice. We had indeed found lots of ice and there was even some sunlight making its way through the fog on the east… Read More 81° 43’ 29” North
The eastern most island in Svalbard is Kvitøya, or the White Island. There has never been a settlement there and the island is generally left to the polar bears and annoying tourists these days, but the island does play a key part in a notable historical event that began in the late 19th century in… Read More A Passage to Kvitøya, the White Island
In addition to polar bears, another large mammal that is common to Svalbard is the walrus. I saw walruses multiple times on my trip, but the most significant time was when we took a zodiac ride close to the shore of a small island where a large herd was hanging out. This was a mornings… Read More Walrus
On the NorthEast side of the island of Spitsbergen at a place called Alkefjellet, there are high cliffs and ledges used by birds to breed and raise chicks in the summer months. The main bird on the cliff was the Brünnich’s Guillemot and there were tens of thousands of them on the cliffs, in the… Read More The Bird Cliffs of Alkefjellet
I saw polar bears on my trip to Svalbard. I saw a lot of polar bears. The archipelago crawls with polar bears. I am not an experienced wildlife photographer and my camera is not considered an excellent wildlife photography camera, but I will tell you about my experience and what I tried. First, I want… Read More Polar Bears!
On the second day of my Svalbard expedition, the ship sailed around the southern end of Spitsbergen Island and we had an opportunity for an excursion ashore for a hike. This also means that no polar bears were spotted or else they would never have let us go on shore. But I didn’t mind because… Read More Beautiful Gloominess
In Longyearbyen I boarded a ship that would sail around Svalbard and into the Arctic Ocean over the course of ten days. The ship was designed around expeditions for adventure tourism, I guess you might say. There are cabins as you might expect, as well as a dining room, lecture theater, a couple of bars… Read More Fjords and Icebergs
I have been on an adventure and I intend to blog about it over the next few weeks. My big adventure for this year was a trip to Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago and territory of Norway. The main city on Svalbard is Longyearbyen, and it is the northern most significant city (population >1000) in the… Read More My Summer Adventure
As we were leaving Carlsbad Caverns National Park, we saw some desert bighorn sheep from the park road. When I saw the bighorn sheep, I turned the car around and headed back up the road to a pull-out. I grabbed my camera and mounted the long-lens then headed back down the road so the bighorns… Read More Desert Bighorn Sheep
I went to New Mexico on a family vacation for a week and the main focus was not photography. I don’t have a lot to blog about from this trip, but I did have a good time. One of the first stops on my trip was Carlsbad Caverns National Park. It is one of the… Read More Photographing in Carlsbad Caverns
