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When the sun does not rise above the horizon at all, the sky can be very colorful in the evening and morning.
The POLAR 5 - a Basler BT-67 - is a research aircraft operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.
The aircraft is an old 1942 Douglas DC3-T that was refurbished and converted in 2007 by Basler Turbo Conversions, LLC in Oshkosh, WI.
So it's an old aircraft equipped with new engines and the latest aircraft technology.
On board is a good half-ton of geophysical measurement instruments, making the aircraft well equipped for research tasks.
From posing for photo ops to rolling in the icy snow, he appeared to be one happy polar bear. This is an old shot
Tiergarten Schönbrunn
"Tiergarten Schönbrunn – Schönbrunn Zoo – was established by the Habsburgs in the park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna’s 13th district of Hietzing in 1752 and is today the world’s oldest zoo that is still in operation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiergarten_Sch%C3%B6nbrunn
I just returned from an amazing trip to Churchill, Manitoba. It was freezing and the Hudson bay froze over early this year. We were a bit nervous that all the polar bears would be gone but we still had amazing sightings and saw this mama polar bear and her cubs every day of our trip. The weather was bitter cold but this place is just magical.
Polar Express
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Barrow/Utqiagvik, Alaska-17141
During a past birding trip in the northern Alaskan town of Utqiagvik/Barrow , a mate and I were driving the coastal road looking for birds that might be flying along the beach and to our absolute shock and surprise there was this Polar Bear standing on the frozen Arctic ocean, no more than a 100 yards of the beach eating possibly the left overs from dead seal or whale?
We ended up watched him from the beach for about 20-30 minutes, "it seem like hours" before he moved on. During the time he was eating, every once in awhile he would look our way, just to make sure we were not getting too close.
looking through the camera view finder it added to the tension as it made him feel even closer, this is definitely a wildlife highlight and experience I will never forget.
big male bear walking on the beach in a fjord in Svalbard.
Taken from a zodiac.
Polar Bear
Ursus Maritimus
Ijsbeer
Ourse polaire ou Ours blanc
Eisbär
oso polar u oso blanco
orso polare o orso bianco
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Polar night means the period in the north when the sun does not rise at all. Here in Muonio, the next sunrise is on January 3rd. The daylight hours are short but not completely dark, because the light in the sky is reflected by the snow.
This is VIENNA, born 1988
She is polar bear FIETES Grandma
and she is the Mother of VIKTOR and Grandma of PIXEL in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park too
She lives in the Zoo Rostock, Germany
When the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon at all for many weeks in the middle of winter, the colors can be fantastic on bright days. The atmosphere is also affected by the trees, which are covered with a thick snow.
We have had very stormy weather today. The Dragon had to stay indoors where he curled up next to his buddy Anton, the polar bear, and they both listened to the wind howling around the house.
A Greater snowdrop 'Polar Bear' (Galanthus elwesii ‘Polar Bear’) is a late flowering variety of snowdrops with very attractive outward-facing, rather than nodding, flowers when fully opened. Taken in the garden. Bath, England, UK.
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Barrow/Utqiagvik, Alaska-1712
During a past birding trip in the northern Alaskan town of Utqiagvik/Barrow , a mate and I were driving the coastal road looking for birds that might be flying along the beach and to our absolute shock and surprise there was this Polar Bear standing on the frozen Arctic ocean, no more than a 100 yards of the beach eating possibly the left overs from dead seal or whale?
We ended up watched him from the beach for about 20-30 minutes, "it seem like hours" before he moved on. During the time he was eating, every once in awhile he would look our way, just to make sure we were not getting too close.
looking through the camera view finder it added to the tension as it made him feel even closer, this is definitely a wildlife highlight and experience I will never forget.
This polar bear lives at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a zoo dedicated to conservation. The are 3 bears at the zoo and a great viewing area to watch them eat, play and swim.
We noticed a big streak in the otherwise clear sky. Looking closer there was a fast moving plane at the top. The origin was south - far south. Being the southernmost capital city in Australia this seemed unusual. So a quick check of the flight activity identified that the flight was a Qantas scenic Antarctica flight (you can see the Qantas logo clearly on the tail).
It is amazing how fast a Polar Bear can run. In this photo, the bear ran by me at a gait, not full speed, and the gait was amazingly fast. I'm thinking, if a polar bear wants a human and the human is out without protection, the polar bear will win 100% of the time.
at least 15 mph. Glad I was in the safety of a vehicle, however, the glass and sheet metal would just slow the bear down.
It's been 6 years since I was privileged to view these 2 cubs and and a few other. I often wonder how they have faired.
What an amazing experience to view and photograph this big bear. While there is snow in this series, it left as we experienced an abnormally warm up...about 50 F (10 C)
This cute little character is one of several polar bear stuffed animals that we use for Christmas decorations each year around our house. This guy with the coke bottle is my favorite of the bunch. It's a nod to the Coca-Cola TV commercials that featured animated polar bears that began running in 1993, and first appeared in Coke Christmas ads in 1995.
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A very heavily processed artistic adaptation of a close-up photo that I took in August of a Polar Bear Zinnia in Pella, Iowa.
I created two different layers in Photoshop using the Art History Brush with two separate brushes. I then added a heavy paint texture to both of these new layers and adjusted the transparency of each layer in the stack. I again applied the same heavy paint texture to the entire composite image and removed some of the texture from the center of the flower with a mask and brush. To finish the composition, I did some dodge & burn work and then used Photoshop’s Selective Color tool and Curves tool to apply some minor color-grading.
Polar Bears can get rather dirty when they've been feeding so spend quite a lot of time swimming and rolling in the snow. This female had been feeding alongside two males on a Walrus carcass then spent a good ten minutes rolling in the snow close to our ship. This was in the pack ice, frozen sea where it starts to break up at the edges, just north of Svalbard.