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Direct eye contact with a polar bear is always a very special experience (at least for me) 😄
Polar Bear GIOVANNA (*2006 in Fasano/Italy) has been living in #TierparkHellabrunn / Zoo Munich since 2008 and mother of Quintana (*2016, still in Munich) and the twins Nela (*2013 now Wildlands Adventure Zoo, Emmen/NL) & Nobby (*2013 now Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Doncaster/UK).
Canon EOS 450D EF70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM
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Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)
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.
Taken at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park these two Polar Bears were having great fun play fighting. I could sit and watch then all day.
Barrow/Utqiagvik, Alaska-17157
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.
Alkefjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard
A large crop from the original, but I thought a portrait would work well with the dark basalt cliffs as a background. For greater emphasis, I have further darkened the background
Taken on the ice floes just off the East coast of Greenland. This was just amazing to watch how easy it was for the bear to swim to an ice floe and just climb out and then just shake off all the water.
"The blue striping of the polar bear evokes the strata of a color of ice as if the bear itself were formed from a glacier.
Blue ice occurs when newer ice compresses the air bubbles in older ice, allowing light to penetrate the ice more deeply. This denser ice absorbs red and yellow light and reflects blue light, giving glacial ice its blue hues."
Number of lego bricks: 112,450
Total hours: 389
Sean Kenney's Nature Pop
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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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.
north of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic
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 Bear Frozen in an Ice Cube – where he is in his element
Size of the frozen Bear: < 1 ½ ” x 1 ½ ”
Background created with Aluminium Foil
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Macro taken June 12, 2025 and uploaded for the groups
Macro Mondays #InIce
and
😄 Happy Macro Monday 😄
Gigaset GS 290
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ISO 198
Watching the kids watch the polar bears frolic in their new swimming pool... and the bears knew how to entertain and get the reactions from the kids as they swam right up to the glass and then pop out of the water and dive back in.. it was quite a scene... today's visit I was more enthralled to watch than to try and capture all the action... next time!
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)
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.
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.
Crazy Tuesday: "Your Favorite Christmas/Advent/Hanukkah or Similar Decoration" theme
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Every fall, polar bears gather on the shores of Hudson Bay to wait for the sea ice to return so they can hunt their seal prey. This is the start of #polarbearweek. A polar bear with a scar on its nose is caught in mid-stride as it raises it huge paw while walking towards my camera though deep snow, Churchill, MN.
31/10/2021 www.allenfotowild.com
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 Bear Dip was officially cancelled for 2022. This did not stop several dozen people to come to Sunnyside beach and brave the cool waters of Lake Ontario. These two ladies Vera and Veronica stayed in the water the longest. They dip in the lake often, not just on January 1st. Their tip (for my and yours next year dip) is to get in quickly and wear gloves and socks.
898. Toronto. 2022-Jan 01; P1200329; Upload 2022-Jan 01. Lmx -ZS100
These two guys are waiting for the ice to form on Hudson Bay. An amazing time spent at Nanuk Lodge with Visionary Wild
How the last living polar bear may be viewed, 20 years from now....I fear we will loose the wonders instilled by these magnificent animals. Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.
One of the polar bears can usually be seen rolling around in the grass and just seems to be enjoying and cooling off... Assiniboine Zoo Arctic exhibit is a wonderful place to learn and be in awe of these amazing bears!
Barrow/Utqiagvik, Alaska-17222
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.
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.
Two large male Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) establishing a pecking order on a spit of land near Kaktovik. They started off just sizing each other up. A jab here and hook there, then fur started to fly. Both were simultaneously biting each other as shown here. Their seemingly Near-Arm, Far-Leg sparring exhibition lasted for 5 minutes before the polar bear on the left walked away - albeit begrudgingly - from their title bout.
Kaktovik, Barter Island, Arctic Alaska