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Subject: [Leica] Polar Bear Kill
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:10:44 -0700
References: <CAH1UNJ0fdLdYM00maS56fB1W753aT4+CNFm5CDNjSRFwOsT6Tg@mail.gmail.com> <D257C1C0-2EFC-488C-8D96-F1E5B21238D2@frozenlight.eu>

Poor seal pup.

(I know, I know, but someone should speak for the dead)

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> Just awesome!
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>
>
> YNWA
>
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
> > The absolute highlight of the whole trip to the pack ice around
> > Spitsbergen was to see and photograph a Polar Bear raid a seal nursery
> > chamber successfully. I captured most of the action, but the D800E has
> > one big limitation for action - low FPS, and even more than that,
> > limited buffer capacity (mainly due to the huge files), and that came
> > and bit me in the butt big time. I had purchased this body full aware
> > of this limitation, but (very unreasonably) it still irritates! I had
> > no time to switch to the D700, which would have effortlessly taken the
> > whole sequence. Anyway, here goes - it was a Female Polar Bear with
> > two cubs:
> >
> > She stalked to figure out the exact location of the chamber:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1712.jpg.html
> >
> > She just looked at the cubs, and they froze:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1714.jpg.html
> >
> > She launched the first attack:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1717.jpg.html
> >
> > She continued trying to breach the chamber, but failed:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1719.jpg.html
> >
> > Then she tried to collapse the roof of the chamber:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1726.jpg.html
> >
> > The first attempt failed:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1727.jpg.html
> >
> > She launched a second attempt:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1728.jpg.html
> >
> > It succeeded:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1730.jpg.html
> >
> > She disappeared into the nursery:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1733.jpg.html
> >
> > She reappeared with the spoils, a Ringed Seal pup:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1736.jpg.html
> >
> > Then the most surprising thing happened, she just grabbed the carcass
> > and fled! We were told later that she probably thought that the ship
> > was a gigantic animal, hell bent on stealing her kill - after all,
> > within the Polar Bear hierarchy, size is paramount. She fled for a few
> > kilometres, and all three starting eating in a hurry. By the time we
> > caught up with them, the meal was substantially over:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1746_001.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/norway/Polar/Norway_20120705_1754.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE.
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Polar Bear Kill)
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