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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

– Anthony Bourdain

The memories of what I took from my travels. Here.

Field Notes from Iceland

3 weeks ago / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Polar regions

"There is no such thing as completion. There are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

Wildlife photography trips are full of long hours with nothing to do. Our ship was steaming away to the next...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

Why do we do it ? Why do we take a painfully long flight trip to reach a country that...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

“ Bear in the water…behind us !!! “ That line set up an unprecedented, scarcely believable few hours for us....

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Creative Musings / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

“ This is a graveyard for drones” Jens, our guide, announced with a chuckle. This was in 2022, during my...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Polar regions

What are the odds of seeing a polar bear ? It’s not easy to sight a polar bear. In fact,...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

Phototrips can be bloody tiring. I reached home a little after noon. A journey that was a tale of delayed...

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Field Notes from Iceland

2 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / trekking / Trip - Polar regions

As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen...

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Field Notes from Iceland

3 years ago / Creative Musings / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Polar regions

It started in the most innocuous way. It is often rather difficult to spot a polar bear. The distant white...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

I am back in Norway. This time focusing on wildlife on the other end of the size spectrum to polar...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

There are 19 species of marine mammals in Svalbard. 3 species of terrestrial mammals. And a whopping 237 species of...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

A bird, a curious mix of dark grey ( or is it more brown ? ) and white – brownish...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Trip - Polar regions

I dug my hands deeper into my pockets searching for some warmth that could be lurking inside, hunched my shoulders...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Conservation / Nature / Photography / Photography thoughts / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

It’s a rather unremarkable bird to look at. Visually, there are birds that are far more striking than the Arctic...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Conservation / Ethics / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

“ Its unlikely that, that bear will survive. It looks tiny in size. There is no ice around the island...

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Field Notes from Iceland

4 years ago / Adventure / Nature / Photography / Travel / Trip - Polar regions

First off, sincere apologies about missing the last scheduled newsletter. I was far away, in a desolate place, totally disconnected...

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