The term ‘wilderness’ is one that is used quite frequently but there is a magical place at the top of the world that truly defines the word. The Svalbard Islands are located in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between Norway and the …
White Open Spaces
What goes through your head when you look through your viewfinder? Are you just clicking away hoping for the best or do you shoot with a plan? I believe that in order to create strong images you need to have …
Trip Report: Svalbard 2014 (Day 7 to 10)
On day 6 we left our two Polar Bears and Narwhal carcass and fell asleep in the pack ice North of Svalbard. In case you haven’t been following along you can read the first instalments of our Svalbard trip report …
Trip Report: Svalbard 2014 (Day 1 to 3)
Like I mentioned in this post, Svalbard is a place of superlatives. It is a vast, almost mystical place which consumes all your senses and without a doubt one of the last true wilderness areas on the planet. It is …
Svalbard Trip Report: 3 to 13 june 2013
Day 1: Leaving Longyearbyen Most of us reached Longyearbyen, capital of Svalbard in the afternoon. Rupert, Rick and Heïdi welcomed us on board the Polaris I, and we immediately set off towards the 86km long island of Prins Karls Forland, …
Behind the Frame: Arctic Tern
Svalbard, Arctic Circle Canon 1D4, 600mm, 1/1250, f/11, ISO 800 During our 2013 Svalbard photo trip I photographed a lot of Arctic Terns but this is definitely one of my favourites. We had just finished photographing a small group of …
Trip Report: 2013 Svalbard Photo Safari (Day 7 to 10)
After a few weeks of travel I have finally found some time to work through images for the final part of my Svalbard trip report. So, if you haven’t yet check out the first and second parts of the trip …
Trip Report: 2013 Svalbard Photo Safari (Day 1 to 3)
Longyearbjen is a long way from South Africa. A really really long way but a few weeks ago I boarded the plane from Johannesburg to join a group of photographers in one of the Northern-most settlements in the world to …
