Eight hours after drilling an adjacent hole in the Arctic ice, this photographer finally captured a polar bear staring straight into his DSLR lens
Wildlife photographer Audun Rikardsen captured a unique image of a polar bear looking into a camera lens placed beneath Arctic ice. The shot, which utilized a motion-sensor setup, has been recognized by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
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Audun Rikardsen (Norway) depicts a polar bear from a seal's perspective as it gazes down a breathing hole in the Arctic sea ice. | Credit: Audun Rikardsen / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Getting a camera eye-to-eye with a polar bear in the Arctic wilderness sounds like a wildlife photographer's dream. But Audun Rikardsen found a clever way to do it, placing his DSLR camera beneath the sea ice so that the animal could be photographed from a seal's perspective.
The result, Icy Window , shows a polar bear peering straight down through a breathing hole – and has now been highlighted in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
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