Tag : Bird

On the second photo expedition to Svalbard this past summer (27/8-3/9), we experienced a rare situation between a Polar bear and a Glaucous gull. A polar bear suddenly dove and swam a good 10-15 meters underwater before it attacked the surprised young gull. I have never seen anything like this on previous expeditions to Svalbard, [...]

This summer I have been able to photograph the Eurasian Eagle-owl twice on the west coast of Norway. This is the biggest owl in Europe, and is for many people a mysterious and rare owl, since it is nocturnal. The usual challenges of night photography are slow shutter speeds, noisy high ISOs, problems with AF [...]

In Texel, I was advised to shoot a Sandwich Tern colony in the evening using front-lighting, but I'd much rather go for back-lighting at dawn. I have great memories of 16 years ago, when shooting Arctic Terns in Finnmark (the northern-most part of Norway) with reddish back-lighting. It was tempting to try this again. I [...]

I´m now back from the Netherlands after the opening of Wild Wonders of Europe exhibition in The Hague. I have two photographs out of the 100 images in this exhibition and it is open until August 30th. I also had time for one intense day with the birds on Texel, which I really enjoyed. For [...]