New edition in 2024! More and better photos and now with hardcover!
A large treasure of images has accumulated through many years in Spitsbergen from 1997 to 2023. It has been an idea for a long time to combine a selection to produce a photo book. Here is the result! 227 colour images show all the diverse, beautiful sides of Salbard: from Bear Island (Bjørnøya) in the south to the Seven Islands (Sjuøyane) in the far north, from the driftwood-covered beaches to the highest, glaciated mountains, from whales to seals, walruses and polar bears to the abundant birdlife, from the fascinating ice to the small, colourful beauty of arctic flowers, lichens and stones. Some impressions of the history complete the collection.
Language: DE, EN, NO, NL
This photo book features the images prominently, as they speak for themselves. Each one is accompanied by a little map that shows where the photo has been taken. A short introductory text in 4 languages (German, English, Dutch, Norwegian) soon gives way to the photos, that dominate 227 out of 236 pages. Comprehensive explanatory text including a lot of general information about Spitsbergen with its landscape, wildlife etc. can be found elsewhere (see the guidebook Spitsbergen-Svalbard).
The photos show impressions of the beauty and diversity of arctic nature with its landscapes and scenery, the wildlife, flowers, and light. By showing and documenting this, at the same time they inform about many of Spitsbergen’s different faces, from the sea to mountain peaks and through different seasons from the (near) dark period to the midnight sun.
The photos invite to enjoy and to dream. They may inspire new plans or wake up pleasant memories. They were taken during ship-based journeys as well as skiing and hiking adventures.
227 out of a total of 236 pages are dedicated to the colour photos. The choice of the landscape format for the A5-size pages follows the proportions so often displayed by arctic scenery with its endless horizons.
A short word about image processing: similarly to good old slide film that needed to be developed if you wanted to see more than a brown plastic stripe, digital images have to be processed to reproduce the original colour and atmosphere of the natural reality at the time the camera clicked. The author guarantees that all images were carefully developed, but in no way manipulated: they do not show anything that has not been there. But everything they do show has been there at the time. They show the arctic reality as seen by the photographer through the lense. No computer tricks, no KI-generated "photos"!
Reference 978-3-937903-10-1 – Weight 0.36 kg – Dimensions: 21.00 x 14.80 cm
160
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Paperback
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Colour photos
DE, EN, NO, NL
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Great stuff!
I'm really interested in the polar regions of our beautiful planet and therefore this book has been a Godsend! I can wholeheartedly recommend this photo book to any photography or polar enthusiast!
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