Polar Bears

Polar Bears - We (and sometime I) have traveled many times in many places above the Arctic Circle since our initial trip on a Russian nuclear powered icebreaker to the North Pole in 1998. Since our first trip during the "Digital Age" to Canada’s Baffin Island in 2006 I have been accumulating images of Polar Bears, the single animal that has drawn me there so many times over a quarter century. This gallery represents some of my favorites, capturing them both up close and personal and in larger landscapes as they constantly roam searching for food, most pressingly seals caught unawares on the ice, but settling for carcasses, bird eggs or fallen bird chicks when trapped on land once the sea ice has begun to melt. It is the continually shortening ice season due to global warming that places them most at risk today.