Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you, Douglas. I am honoured. Henning Wulff hjwulff at gmail.com On 2016-09-22, at 4:07 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >