Best Arctic and Polar Wildlife Photography Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Arctic and Polar Wildlife Photography Tour Destinations Polar wildlife photography is among the more demanding categories of wildlife travel. The destinations are remote (Svalbard, Antarctic Peninsula, Hudson Bay), the windows narrow (the polar wildlife seasons are typically 4-12 weeks long), the trips expensive ($8,000-25,000+ for serious expeditions), and the photographic conditions often difficult. The reward is access to wildlife - polar bears, penguins, walruses, narwhal, orcas, muskox, arctic foxes - that simply doesn't exist anywhere else. I haven't been to Antarctica or done a serious Arctic polar-bear expedition; my polar wildlife experience is limited to a Lofoten orca trip and a Greenland-coast expedition. Most of what's below comes from polar-photographer friends and writing by Florian Schulz, Joel Sartore, and other working polar photographers. Where I'm passing on someone else's view, I...