I love photographs that you don’t understand immediately. Ice? Scree? Rock? Where are we? St Johnsfjorden / Prins Karls Forland in Svalbard. So what? Deception Island in Antarctica looks a dull grey but is ice govered in dust. This is…
I was thinking the other day about what my favourite place *to* be would be, as compared to places that I *have* been. The two are obviously conflated, but though I have seem many magical things with wildlife, most often…
Two Arctic hares on the rocky hillside overlooking Blomsterbukten, eastern Greenland. This shot is important to me because of what happened before, and illustrates why wildlife photographers need to understand nature perhaps more than they need to understand photography. Arriving…
We saw many beautiful icebergs in Greenland, hundreds of them. Immense in size, colour and shape, they dotted the landscape like sheep dot English hillsides. Whilst I loved the majestic nature of the large smooth icebergs, I was also drawn…
A lone iceberg floats in the calm of a Norwegian Fiord. This image was taken during our Arctic Expedition on the MS Expedition in 2010. We spent a glorious 10 nights exploring the fiords and seas of Svalbard, Spitsbergen and…
Some of the most incredible sunsets we have seen have been in the Arctic. On a clear night, when looking out across the dark, calm seas you can see the curvature of the earth on the horizon whilst mother nature…
Whilst visiting the Arctic in 2010 we were incredibly lucky to see this Blue Whale off the bow of the ship. It is a rare sighting – confirmed as such by the excited squeals and announcements by our crew on…
This is, without a doubt, the world’s most comfiest mountainside. It’s in Greenland and this shot was taken as I lay on the bed of red heather with the sun beating down on me, a gentle breeze ruffling my hair…
When you are surrounded by the immense landscape of Arctic Greenland it can be really difficult to tear your eyes away from the rugged mountains, the endless calm ocean and the glistening icebergs to look at the floor – but…
This is Longyearbyen. It’s the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard, Norway. It’s most known to tourists as the gateway to the Arctic and home of the polar bear. It has a small town centre and a large abandoned…