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These birds were not scared in letting us know they didnt like us near their territory as we headed to the cliff edge to see the puffins in Iceland. We were dive-bombed incessantly particularly if we were anywhere near their young.
Amazing birds who spend winter in South Africa and Spring and Summer in Iceland. In their lifetime they fly distances equivalent of the moon and back.
Staying in the frozen north - arctic foxes in Svalbard were far easier to see them in Iceland. Three were patrolling the area near the Murre colonies at Alkefjellet
Arctic Tern / sterna paradisaea. Inner Farne, Northumberland. 17/05/24.
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One of the many Arctic Terns to arrive on Inner Farne (17th May this year), to kick off the breeding season in earnest. This bird took a brief rest on a lichen clad wall, whilst its (presumed) mate was establishing a nest scrape on the ground below.
A shame it was so overcast during the hour I was on the island ... some blue sky would have improved this image considerably!
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Arctic Fox Cubs summer morph. The Arctic fox is the only land mammal native to Iceland. It came to the isolated North Atlantic Island at the end of the last ice age, walking over the frozen sea.
Fjalladyrd Guesthouse is a remote location in Modrudalur, which is on the edge of the northern highlands. The highest farm in Iceland at 1539 feet and one of the earliest settled areas in the country.
We stayed in the turf-roofed eco-cabins (essentially hotel-style rooms) with ensuite and two beds. We where right in the middle of nowhere, but close to many amazing spots of the highlands and the nearby lowlands. Lake Mývatn, Dettifoss, Ásbyrgi, Askja, Kverkfjöll and Stuðlagil are all within driving distance from our farm.
Arctic Fox Portrait
Created with Midjourney AI engine. PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 Raw filters.
Prompt: color pencil, arctic fox, portrait, isolated on a white background --v 5.2 --s 250 --style raw
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Magical Aurora over our camp on the frozen Scoresbysund fjord in east Greenland. I have shot alot of Aurora but it was a special moment being out on the ice in the remote location shooting Aurora among huge icebergs (and polar bears).
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Elegant little birds, summer visitors to the UK, this one flying over the dunes of a Northumberland beach.
(We managed to get out for a couple of hours between rainstorms)
Arctic Tern / sterna paradisaea. Inner Farne, Northumberland. 17/05/24.
Sitting it out on the beach the day that Arctic Terns arrived in force on Inner Farne. This one was possibly waiting for its mate, or might have been an unpaired bird? About 15 of them were hanging about like this, whereas up by the chapel and along the boardwalks, far more were actively engaged in establishing nest sites.
The image was made in overcast conditions with some light drizzle. If viewed large, you can see that the bird's forehead is peppered with minute water droplets.
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I've been trying to achieve an image like this for the last five Norway trips, light and conditions never combined in the right location until a couple of weeks ago. These little rorbu are just the most beautiful of buildings, the last rays of sunlight on the distant mountains was the perfect backdrop. These conditions are why I have such a fascination for the arctic, the light is just incredible, especially mid winter. When the few hours of daylight has gone the moonlight brings the snow covered landscape back to life, its hard to find time to sleep.
This was the first time in a couple of months sunlight was visible here this far into the arctic north, it would have been a few days earlier but it was always too cloudy on the horizon.
Canon 1dsmkiii 70-200 3.2 secs @ f8 iso 100 Lee 0.6nd grad and nd B+W kaseman 105mm polariser
Might be the first 'showy' flower to bloom in spring (disregarding willows), Arctic Anemones aka Arctic Windflower ( anemone parviflora var. parviflora) is such a fresh and welcome sight before most other signs of spring emergence appear.
great day on both islands yesterday.
took 3500 photographs so i'll be editing for a while
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was absolutely baking hot so with my skin & the relentless sunshine i ended up looking like hellboy by the time we got home....
Østgrønland, Greenland
I took this photo from the deck of our expedition ship as we were leaving Isfjord and Louise Boyd Land. The grandeur and vastness of Greenland's landscape is truly amazing.
Your views, comments and faves are deeply appreciated.
The raw file was processed with DxO Filmpack. Based on a Kodak Ektachrome, I made further corrections until the result matched my idea.
Had an amazing encounter with this Pale phase Skua not only was it confiding and with care allowed me to move in close the flip side of things was that it just loved to go in to full attack mode and dive bomb me when ever I stood up and walked away ...
I still cannot believe I got the chance with not only the dark phase but this bird up close ..
At lake Vífilstaðavatn, Reykjavík. Super chill arctic tern, usually you need to watch out for them about to divebomb you, but this one was just sitting on a rock and paying me no attention at all. Might be that she hasn't got a mate or started a nest.
A bit further along the road from the last picture, another Arctic tern, in flight…shortly before it had a go at my head. They’re very aggressive in defending their nests!
Mid January Arctic light in Norway,the sun stays below the horizon this early in the year but you get this amazing colour on clear days.
The dark blue band behind the mountains is actually the Earth casting a shadow on its own atmosphere and that the pinkish hue above that is called the belt of Venus.
With its long tail streamers and general shape the Arctic tern deserves the local name of 'sea swallow'. Appearing white with a black cap, it is largely coastal although it can be seen inland on migration. It depends on a healthy marine environment and some colonies have been affected by fish shortages. Arctic terns are the ultimate long distance migrants - summer visitors to the UK and winter visitors to the Antarctic.Photo taken on the Isle of May, Scotland
This is not the panorama I had envisaged in my mind. But it's been a while since I last stopped off here and i had forgotten that the soldiers don't face exactly where I thought. I suppose it was Guy Martin's Channel 4, Arctic Warriors, programme this week that made me think of going to the Commando Memorial while my wife got her hair done.
I did want the panorama to only have the commandos in shot against a panorama of snow covered mountains. I extended my tripod to full height and clipped my D750 to the top set on self timer (20 seconds, and with rear preview screen set facing downwards. Pressing the shutter button, I hoisted the tripod so that just the bottom of the legs were in my hands and then reached my arms above my head so that the camera ended up about 11-12 feet above the ground. Peering up I tried to aim the camera whilst using the level guide on the screen. Whilst my hands froze I got my shots, but as of yet I haven't untangled the miriad of shots and merged them together successfully. In the meantime you get the ordinary perspective, albeit in a panoramic format.
Arctic Tern / sterna paradisaea. Inner Farne, Northumberland. 17/06/24.
The low, lichen-clad walls made perfect perching platforms for Arctic and Common Terns to observe their nests on the ground below. This ringed Arctic Tern was showing typical territorial behaviour.
It was of concern to read this week that Arctic Terns have been added to the Red List.
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The entire Prins Karls Forland (Forlandet) Island (Svalbard Archipelago) and the surrounding sea area constitutes Forlandet National Park. Therefore shed reindeer antlers are pretty abundant there as visitors are not allowed to take them as souvenirs or trophies. We arranged two of them to make a landmark of a shortcut to the small fresh water lake. The young arctic polar fox noticed this new landscape development immediately and came close to explore it. Therefore, the installation was set up and it attracted the fox itself but there were no other means of baiting. The story has been documented on four pictures.