Category : Image of the Week

I’ve been photographing more than hundred Polar bears, on 13 photo expeditions to Svalbard. In this situation I wanted to do something new, and photographed the bear in backlight and underexpose it by purpose. The result was a “Black bear” in great midnight orange sun, photographed 02:19 in the middle of the night. The shape [...]

Sometimes I see images in strange places. The shot above was taken just after an assignment photographing a hotel in Jotunheimen, Norway. The shapes, lines and shadows caught my attention and I spent some time photographing this “black spider”. PHOTO INFO 24–70/2.8, 1/50 sec, f/3,2 and ISO 400 PHOTOGRAPHER Ole Jørgen Liodden LOCATION Norway DATE [...]

Penguins are always great to photograph, even when the weather is “bad”. In this picture the wind was very strong, so it was difficult to see the birds even when they came quite close. But, when I got at least one of the penguins in focus it was well worth the effort. PHOTO INFO 500/4.0, [...]

It’s always fun to photograph wild owls. Sometimes they also can be pretty tame, like this Great Grey Owl in northern Finland. In this shot I used my 16-35/2.8 wide angle and could include some of the landscape. The fresh bright snow almost worked as a big flash with softbox. PHOTO INFO  16-35/2.8 (at 16mm), 1/500 [...]

Mountain gorillas are amazing creatures! I’m now preparing for my next photo safari to the gorillas in Rwanda and hope to get similar opportunities as on my previous trip in 2010. In the photograph above I decided to get low and shoot through the leafs to get the blurry green foreground. It was also an [...]

On my first photo expedition to Antarctica in 2006, I had some really nice meetings with the "locals". On of my best memories is from Plenau Bay where we found this Gentoo penguin among big icebergs. I was lucky to have a zodiak driver who listened to me and diredted the zodiak so I could [...]

The Golden eagle is one of the most fascinating of the European birds. They are quite shy, but especially during the cold winter they might show up in front of a hide if there’s some food available. I’ve been fortunate to live just a few hundred meters away from a nesting pair of Golden eagles. [...]

I’ve always been fascinated with penguins. On my fifth expedition to Antarctica / sub-Antarctica I had the opportunity to photograph one of the most vulnerable species – the Fiordland crested penguin. Already the first evening I had some close encounters with these beautiful birds when they came on shore in the evening. I used slow [...]