Fulmarscape

[Krijn Trimbos]

Taken at Spitsbergen last June. Hopefully this gives an idea of Spitsbergens landscape. We waited for some time untill this Fulmar flew in right were we wanted it. Cropped to a pano for compositional purposes.

Canon EOS 7D 1/400 f16
ISO 400
Canon 100-400 L IS USM f4.5-5.6

[Axel Hildebrandt]

This looks great! I like the composition, light, clouds, landscape and the Fulmar adds to it.

[Stu Bowie]

I really like the setting here, together with the winter colours. Good timing to capture and place the Fulmar where you have.

[Randy Stout]

Krijn:

Looks very cold and barren. The addition of the bird adds a lot to the already nice image. I could see a version cropped in from the right, to move the main mountain out of the center a bit. Just an option. Burr, makes me cold:)

Cheers

Randy

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Krijn, this is just beautiful - you have really captured the atmosphere of the place and the colours are so beautiful. Personally I feel that the mountains need to be as you have presented them.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice landscape shot, I see a subtle bluish case on the whites, must have been very cold!

[James Salywoda]

Gorgeous Krijn ! I love the composition of the shot. Congrats!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Krijn, I liked this a lot. would have been very good even without the bird....but the bird takes it to another level. What a place. Good call on the aperture. Thx for sharing.

[Peter den Hartog]

Sweet image Krijn.

[adrian dancy]

A lovely image....the bird does not appear as a fulmar to me ...possibly a skua.

[Krijn Trimbos]

Thanks for the comments people, very much apprieciated!

Adrian, I am sorry to dissapoint you but this is a Northern Fulmar for sure. There were Arctic Skuas in the area as well though.

[Simon Bennett]

Wow what a place. A fine image indeed. Good thinking to wait for the added interested the fulmar provides.

[adrian dancy]

Having looked at the species I now agree with you and my apologies for doubting you and for being a little ignorant of both species! I learned something!!!

Even more importantly I neglegted to say why I liked your image. I have always been a big fan of images showing tiny in the frame and in my humble opinion this one works very well in all respects.