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Caption: Svalbard THE ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO
Caption: When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north. _______ ANONYMOUS
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Caption: The beauty of the snow covered peaks is overwhelming. Svalbard must be one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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Caption: Once arrived and after I picked up my luggage, I searched quickly for my car, threw the luggage into the 4×4 and sprinted to the edge of the smooth hill at the edge of Longyearbyen airport, just to look at the sea, mountains and glaciers
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Caption: Svalbard is an archipelago at 79° north in the Arctic Ocean. I have always been in love with the harsh nature and environment of the arctics. To me Svalbard is impossible to describe in words. It is so far off from anything I have seen and experienced before.
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Caption: This was an eight day trip only at the beginning of September 2014 and I planned it to be more an exploration journey: just to feel and test out conditions for a possible, longer trip.
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Caption: I live in Northern Norway, so harsh weather conditions, long distances, improvisation and absolute solitude are not entirely new to me – I love them.
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Caption: I am feeling very lucky and privileged that I could stay at a cabin. I could write a book with all my impressions, however, I let my captured impressions speak for themselves.
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Caption: I pretty much enjoyed the possibility to go anywhere you like. On Svalbard, there are hardly any restricted areas and that creates the feeling of unrestrained freedom.
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Caption: I am a brown bear researcher. I live where brown bears live and I move through forests in bear lands and I do not fear those animals. On Svalbard live approximately 3,000 polar bears. Even though direct contact between humans and polar bears occur rather seldom, as polar bears roam areas in the north and the east of the archipelago, some individuals may show up near the few human settlements in the west. (However, this number is increasing and more and more contacts are reported.) And other than brown bears, polar bears are extremely dangerous and an attack may occur instantly and in a rapid velocity. This made me thinking while hiking through the amazing landscape: all of a sudden me, myself, I am prey. The awareness that there is another creature on this island, which would like to kill and eat me within a heartbeat, that was the most interesting and unexpected experience I had.
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Caption: Overall, this was one of the best trips I made. Just eight days for plenty of impressions and desire to get more of it.
And I can’t wait to get to work with the analogue shots I have been taken during this trip to Svalbard.
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Caption: Back to the Norwegian mainland HOME
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Caption: I would like to thank Reuben Wu @itsreuben | reubenwu.com for his help and information while planning my trip. Also I would like to express my gratitude to Bjørn, Paul Eric and Tor-Arne for their support.
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