
Photographer’s Moody Landscapes Capture the Harsh Winter in Finland
A photographer has sought to celebrate the cold, harsh landscape of his native Finland in a series of ethereal photos.
A photographer has sought to celebrate the cold, harsh landscape of his native Finland in a series of ethereal photos.
Tucked away in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago is the Global Seed Vault; a backup facility for the world's crops should things go awry. The building itself looks like the lair of a James Bond villain.
Photographer Florian Ledoux endured endless winter months and Arctic sea ice shooting nature documentaries and as a result, he believes he has spent more time with polar bears than any crew before him.
A giant iceberg five times the size of Malta has broken away from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, satellite imagery shows.
Pelican Pro photographer and filmmaker Benjamin Hardman was so drawn to arctic landscapes, he traded in his life on the warm shores of Australia to live in Iceland, one of the harshest environments on Earth.
Today, interest in adventure travel is at an all-time high. Most modern day travelers design their travel itineraries based on the exciting experiences that it will provide. For photographers, this is especially true, as portfolio worthy images often come from adventurous experiences.
The beauty of the Arctic is overwhelming. The biting cold and the pristine silence is punctuated by occasional extraordinary sounds, as the glacier ice creaks and falls. At the centre of this beauty are the enormous structures of freshwater ice calved from the glaciers, the great icebergs.
Photographer Alex Savu captures stunning photos of glaciers as he seeks to inspire others to visit the Arctic phenomena.
Photographer Neill Drake recreated a photo of a glacier taken in the Arctic over a century ago which highlights its drastically reduced mass and acts as a warning about the effects of climate change.
Ragnar Axelsson is an Icelandic photographer who has been working in the frigid Arctic for over 40 years and documenting breathtaking imagery of the desolate landscape and its people.
The monotonous propeller noise of Air Greenland’s Dash-8-200 had been roaring in my ears for more than an hour as we began our approach to Ilulissat.
I have an irrational fear of ships based on 90-minute voyages on car ferries across the relative calm of the English Channel and yet I was sitting with my wife, Fre, listening to Tony Spencer trying to convince us that we should join him on “the adventure of a lifetime,” the fulfilment of a dream that Tony had been working on for three years.
Alexander Semenov is the head of the scientific diving team at the White Sea biological station of Lomonosov's Moscow State University. But he's also a marine biologist, and an exceptional underwater photographer. And nowhere is that more obvious than his ethereal portraits of so-called 'Sea Angels.'
For my latest photo essay "Forty Days Of Darkness," I bought the new iPhone 11 Pro and went to Russia's Murmansk, the biggest city in the Arctic circle. From December until January the sun never rises over Murmansk. With the iPhone camera (most of the time) set to "night mode," I shot life in the darkness there.
During SXSW in Austin, Texas, earlier this month, award-winning Canadian documentary photographer Louie Palu held an unusual exhibition titled "Arctic Passage." His large format photos were displayed on a plaza frozen within large blocks of ice.
I’ve been saying it for years; all the easy pictures have been taken. But there are still some stupid and crazy ones left out there. I came up with the bright idea to travel north with at least one of them in mind. I went looking for the polar bear of my dreams.
In photography, the "golden hour" is the time right after sunrise or right before sunset in which sunlight is warmer and softer -- a look that's valued by landscape and portrait photographers. If an hour isn't enough time for you to get your fill of the special lighting, you might want to visit the Arctic Circle, where you can enjoy "golden days".
Photographer Dale Sharpe is a determined guy. It took two rings and two trips to the arctic circle, but he finally got engaged to the one person he loves, capturing the epic moment on camera while the northern lights danced above their heads.
Back in 2013, Facebook opened its first data center outside the United States. Located in Luleå, Sweden, the 900,000-square-foot complex -- about the size of 11 football fields -- looks like something out of a science fiction film. New photos now offer a rare look inside.
Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier's short film "Arctique" captures the stark beauty of the arctic in a way that will leave you absolutely mesmerized.
Leading up to the total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, photographer Rueben Krabbe had a crazy and ambitious idea: he wanted to photograph skiers in front of the eclipse at the "edge of the Earth."
What would you endure for the perfect shot? For Australian photographer Joshua Holko, the answer is "freezing blasts from a winter storm in the arctic." That's what he went through to capture incredible photos of the Arctic fox.
Danish nature photographer Morten Hilmer spent two years of his adult life serving …
More than a decade ago, photographer Camille Seaman visited Alaska, Svalbard and Antarctica, and thus began a love affair with the polar regions that spanned 10 years and tens of thousands of photographs.
Now, the best of her images of icebergs, animals, and Arctic and Antarctic landscapes are being compiled into the photo book Melting Away, poised to be released just as the debate over climate change and its impact reaches a fever pitch.
If you thought surfing in Texas was absurd, then this little video and accompanying feature will truly blow you away. As part of an original SmugMug Film, Photographer Chris Burkard and professional surfers Patrick Millin, Brett Barley, and Chadd Konig fight through frigid temperatures and rough conditions, all to capture the adventure that is surfing in the Arctic Circle.
When Seattle-based photographer Eirik Johnson went to photograph the hunting cabins of the Iñupiat people of Barrow, Alaska, he found something more than he expected. The resulting summer and winter combination series, dubbed Barrow Cabins, turned into "a meditation on the passage of time."
Often, getting the perfect shot requires months of planning, the right gear, and the know-how to properly capture that …