Wildlife Photography: Polar Bears in Svalbard 

Man, when you hold your camera out over the side of the ship as you gesticulate in the direction of polar bears, my stress levels go *way* up!

Experience of a lifetime~ Bear photo at 8 minute mark is really beautiful!

oh my gosh....you give me heart palpitations every time you point OVER THE EDGE with your camera in your hand and not attached in any way!!!! not even a wrist strap???

I would so love to go on a trip to photograph polar bears. Thank you so much for sharing you experience with us.

Two flashbacks for me. Camera over the water, and Heaton admitting he wouldn’t get you if he saw a polar bear. Reminds me of Greg forgetting he had a radio after spotting a puma in the follow van….

EXCEPTIONAL stuff! Thanks for taking me along!

Da Bears - Good ole SNL Reference👍 Love the Bear images, you could say some were Bangers, was that a Peter Mckinnon reference🤔hahaha

Thanks for sharing an amazing adventure with us all 😊

Great job Brendan , great photos , photographs are fantastic . Looked like an experience to die for 😊

Lovely work Brendan, some heart stopping moments, and not just when the camera and lens get dangled over the side!

Oh wow what awesome images 😮😅😊

Great video, was very interested in the 800mm canon lense. I have been interested in these expeditions, but cost is crazy. So get my enjoyment from others until I save my pennies. What date was the expedition held.

at 4:00 minutes Brendan freaks out every photographer in the world by holding the camera in the most awkward way possible over the sea 😱

Beautiful images of the Bears

Wow amazing experience with those bears.

Some amazing footage but I think my favorite is one no one would expect… the seagull on the ice!! I also really liked the foggy polar bear one.

Oh Brendan, you sure captured beautiful shots of the polar bears. Gosh, I'm in total awe of your photos!

Looked like an epic adventure!

The ship looks very familiar. One of the Russian professor......... ships?? Great memories.

What a fantastic experience it all was!

Absolute bucket list location.

I was on a polar bear expedition in Svalbard this summer and it was an incredible experience. Your video brings back a lot of memories! Thanks for sharing!

Wow 🤩 amazing experience and some great photos

Amazing pictures, what a dream!

Goodluck on your videos

Adore that pose in the third pic of the closer bear

Great video, we are going on a similar trip in a few months. I'm not a very good photographer, and end up using my iphone most of the time to capture wildlife. I do have a Nikon D7100 and a Nikkor 18 -300 mm zoom lens. Will that work or do I need a different set up? Any suggestions are appreciated. Also it looks like a lot of people are using the railing for support, and not using tripods. So would a beanbag be helpful?

Did you get the scratch buffed off in your lens Brendan?

Wonderful! What an exciting adventure. When you were outside with your parka hood on, I suddenly thought that you looked like John Travolta! HA! Finding similarities is just a silly observation that we tend to do as humans isn't it? I also find faces in tree bark and animals in clouds, so go figure. No mistaking those amazing polar bears for anything else though! I liked the ice pack pictures too. They really make you think about that part of the world.

Nice experience. You could definitely use that 800mm on your Aftrica trips. Carry on. 👍🥂

Do you have the Canon R6 or R6II, if so how do you like it. I have the Canon R, I really like the R going to upgrade to the R6 II, one day.

Why have you so few videos these days?