Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> El 19 set 2016, a les 20:41, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> >> va escriure: >> >> 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/ So many layers of wow both in the location and in this set of photographs. That long panorama qualifies as spectacular. Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist