ARCTIC

In the summer of 2007 I visited the Arctic as a shipboard photography advisor with Students on Ice, a Canadian organization that takes high school and college students on expedition to the Arctic and Antarctic--an experience of a lifetime for students of "all ages" to become "Ambassadors for the Environment." It was the first time since record keeping started that the NW Passage was free of summer ice. The summer of 2010 was the second.

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  • "Tophat" iceberg illuminated for just a few minutes in bright sunlight, Butterfly Bay.

  • Sweeping edge of iceberg at water level, Butterfly Bay.

  • Film crew out into Hudson Bay.

  • Water ripples in a warm, calm sea. Off Cape Wolstoncroft, Hudson Bay Straights.

  • Weather changes blow in quickly.

  • Dorsal fin of this Killer Whale is 6 feet tall!

  • Zodiac cruising around Walrus Island where on the other side a mother polar bear and cub are feasting on a walrus carcass.

  • Mother and baby feeding on walrus carcass, Walrus Island.

  • Baby polar bear colored with walrus blood walks on rocks at Walrus Island after dining.

  • MV Orlova anchored off Coates Island.

  • Water ripples in warm, calm water off Cape Wolstoncroft, Hudson Bay Straights.

  • Mary Simon, Inuit political leader, prepares to eat kelp on Coates Island.

  • A seal is killed for feast in our honor, to be served raw and cubed, Kimmirut.

  • Young girl in Eminem cap with Husky puppy, Kimmirut.

  • Low tide in Pangnirtun harbor.

  • Lone polar bear climbing rocky slopes of Lower Savage Island in the mist and rain.

  • Cold weather drifts in off Pangnirtun.

  • Summer ice in Hoare Bay.

  • MV Orlova behind ice wall, Hoare Bay.

  • Orlova enters level 8-9 (out of 10) pack ice, Hoare Bay.

  • Chunks of level 8-9 pack ice, Hoare Bay.

  • What it feels like to be out cruising in a Zodiac bumping along the edge of pack ice.

  • "The Swoop" a melting iceberg in Hoare Bay.

  • Melting, dripping iceberg, Hoare Bay.

  • Giant iceberg and person driving Zodiac boat, Hoare Bay.