Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning, I admit I have to go with the floe myself, and P8241109 is the one I picked and am using as my windows wallpaper right now having used Sonny Carter's cornfield shot for a year and four months - sorry Sonny! I really liked Definitely a Male from your polar bear shots though all of them were very good. Looking at all that cold ice and snow, I realise that I'm really Temperate Zone Man personified. Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <hjwulff at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:28 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic full set > Thanks, Rick. Yes; that is one of my favourites as well (and George picked > it too - thank you George!). The shadings of blues to white were amazing, > and it all changes continually. > > The amount of ice was very low. We had to actually go out of our way a bit > to find the ice floes that were part of the ones we 'boarded'. The ones we > saw with the bears on them we came across on our normal passage. > > https://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/?lang=En&n=542306E5-1 is a map depicting > the sea ice in the whole of northern Canada and > https://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/ is the portal to more detailed ice maps > that we got to see on a daily basis > > The area that we were travelling through is still ice free over 90% of our > route, and the area that has ice has at most 50% coverage right now. We > didn't see or go into any area that had even 20% coverage. > > Some of the search expeditions that went looking for Franklin in the late > 1840's couldn't progress more than 10 or 15km per summer for multiple > years in a row before becoming ice bound again. > > Henning Wulff > hjwulff at gmail.com > > > > > On 2016-09-19, at 1:10 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > >> the most magical for me was : >> P8241109 >> >> some really nice stuff in the set. >> >> Is there less ice thatn expected, less than in the pass , or was this as >> normally expected for your destination? >> >> ric >> >> >>> On Sep 19, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> There are now 83 items in the 'Canadian Arctic 2016' album from our trip >>> in August, including bear pictures. We saw quite a bit of wildlife, but >>> a lot of it was fleeting or hard to identify unless you were watching >>> carefully, as a lot of it was at quite a distance. We saw a couple of >>> bowhead wales, some narwhal, walrusses, various seals, muskox as well as >>> many of the infamous 'muskrocks' which look very similar at great >>> distance. Also a large variety of birds. >>> >>> Most of my wildlife shots were taken with the 100-400 Panasonic-Leica >>> zoom which was an excellent choice for this trip. My next most used lens >>> was the 12-40/2.8 Olympus, then the 7-14 Panasonic and last, mostly >>> because of insufficient reach, the 40-150/2.0 Olympus. I took about 7500 >>> shots on this trip. A UV filter was kept over any lenses that were out >>> when we were in the zodiacs, and the equipment was rinsed off in the >>> shower after any noticeable salt water splashing. Everything worked >>> perfectly. >>> >>> Contrary to Africa, where I have taken full frame shots of lions with a >>> 35mm wideangle, I wouldn't try that on a polar bear. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/Arctic/ >>> >>> >>> Henning Wulff >>> henningw at archiphoto.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >