Show us your polar bears...

[Game Warden]

Please include when and where taken, tech specs and any other pertinent details about the sighting. Likewise, any advice for others planning a polar bear safari. Thanks. Matt.

[Super LEEDS]

 

Central Park, New York. It was hot.

[sundowner]

This was taken in 2009 in Churchill from one of the tundra buggies. It was a cold, beautiful, sunny day.

 

It was during this trip that I vowed to never go to a cold place again and it wasn't even that cold.

 

Back in the day of the Canon 40D with a Canon 500mm f4 lens.

iso 400, 1/2000, f/8.0

 

 

Same trip with a Canon 1DMarkIIN and probably the Canon 100-400

iso1600, 1/500, f/7.1 at 280mm

 

[ovenbird]

We got them coming and going...somewhere in the Northwest Passage of the Canadian Arctic August 2013.

 

Taken by Dave from the main deck with Canon 7D

 

 

 

My shot from the monkey deck with Panasonic DMC-ZS20

 

[Atdahl]

Awesome shots everyone. Add this trip to my bucket list...

[monalisa]

Oops I didn't realise there was a topic just for polar bears. In any case, here is my contribution! Taken in Churchill, Manitoba

 

 

 

 

 

[gatoratlarge]

The first pic is the best pic of a polar bear I was able to snap---of course I wish the polar bears had swam around the boat doing water aerobics (which has happened, they can be quite curious) but I was perfectly content watching them through binoculars caring less about the ship and working the pack ice to find a napping seal. None of these are going to make it into National Geographic but trying to keep steady on the deck of a ship, find the polar bear in your binoculars and then re-find it in your camera lens ain't easy all the while your eyes are teary due to the wind coming off the ice! We spotted a total of six bears, some ringed seals, walruses and reindeer in the Svalbard Islands. It was really beautiful:

 

 

[melproffit]

Churchill Manitoba 2015

[melproffit]

Churchill Manitoba 2015

[BieneMaja]

Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic, July 2019

 

[Csaba]

Few shots from my Svalbard cruise. Better stuff coming up once I've edited the photos.

 

Spot the bear competition.

 

 

Feeding on a reindeer.

 

 

 

 

All photos taken with 750D and 100-400 mm lens. First shot is at Ny Ålesund. Second and third shots were taken at Ytre Norskøya.

[BieneMaja]

I've done several polar bear trips over the past years. Here are some pictures from my favorite trip, I threw in two Northern lights photos as well. Enjoy!

 

 

[michael-ibk]

Beautiful!