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Subject: [Leica] Arctic full set
From: ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:10:55 -0400
References: <095493EF-3AFC-4310-B453-F65D35B7E38D@archiphoto.com>

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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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