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Svalbard Winter

128 images Created 25 Apr 2016

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  • Spring in the arctic is a mix of melting ice and snow from a long winter and stunning light.  In summer, walrus follow the melting pack ice and head north to find places to feed.  This lone walrus went north a bit earlier than his pack and found shelter for the night on this piece of ice.
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  • The first day of midnight sun in Longyearbyen, Svalbard is a special time, as the sun stays low to the horizon for hours and makes the snow-covered world golden.  This Svalbard Ptarmigan in white winter plumage sat in melting snow, curiously looking at this weird thing lying on the ground with a big white lens.  After a lot of inching, I was able to position myself so that the ptarmigan was backlit in this glowing world.
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  • In late winter in Svalbard, in the high arctic when the sun spends hours just above the horizon, Anon saw a group of walrus lying in the snow.  After being nearly hunted to extinction, walrus have made a tremendous recovery and are a fascinating species.  Anon joined them, lying in the snow for hours, waiting for them to look at him.  One briefly lifted its head, as if to see what this strange-smelling thing was, and then went back to sleep.
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  • At certain times of year, such as in the winter, you're able to land at Moffen Island in Svalbard.  Anon was fortunate enough to land when there were some walruses around, but as he lay there for hours in the snow, the walruses weren't doing much.  Suddenly, one came out of the water and started rolling around in the snow.  He paused on his back for a moment, as if to say, "I'm ready for my closeup, darling" before getting up and going back into the ocean.
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  • Walrus spend a lot of their day lying around, sleeping.  Walrus action is when they lift their head up.  On a late winter trip to the Arctic, I spent hours lying in the snow on Moffen Island, just off of Spitsbergen, Svalbard.  I was hoping for a break in the clouds to get the walrus backlit, but the dreary gray sky didn't look like it would cooperate.  It started snowing, and the clouds parted just long enough for me to take this one frame of walrus acting like they normally do--sleeping--and then it went back to being gray.
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