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TV Gallery: Frozen Planet
TV Gallery: Frozen Planet
Celebrating the work of the photographers featured in the BBC's remarkable new natural history series
Sunday, 30 October 2011
The largest ice cap in the Eurasian Arctic Jason Roberts. All images © the credited photographer and the BBC
What we're used to seeing whenever the BBC launches on one of its epic explorations of the natural world is moving pictures. But as well as training film cameras at their subects, from the largest mountains and glaciers to the smallest organisms, the hardy modern-day adventurers armed with their phenomenal hi-tech kit also train still cameras at everything they encounter.
The result, thanks to Chadden Hunter, Fredi Devas, Vanessa Berlowitz, Hugh Miller, Jason Roberts and Robert Pitman - who are variously camera operators, producers and directors of Frozen Planet - is a collection of moving pictures of a different kind. theartsdesk celebrates their work here in a gallery of spectacular photographs, some still and quiet, others which convulse with geological or mammalian action.
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A sea lion chases a Gentoo penguin (BBC)
An early-morning view of Mt Erebus, Antarctica (Vanessa Berlowitz)
Frozen taiga forest, Finland (Fredi Devas)
A massive pack of 25 timberwolves hunting bison on the Arctic Circle in northern Canada (Chadden Hunter)
A nunatak pokes through the ice sheet in Antarctica (Vanessa Berlowitz)
Aerial shot of a humpback whale amongst shearwaters off the coast of Alaska in the Aleutians (BBC)
An orca takes a seal and drags it into the water to drown it (Robert Pitman)
Male polar bear follows female, showing battle scars (Jason Roberts)
Elephant seals fighting (BBC)
Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard (BBC)
Snowflake close-up detail, filmed with unique macro technology (BBC)
Gentoo penguin (Andy Rouse/naturepl.com)
A humpback whale dives for krill amidst thousands of short-tailed shearwaters in the Bering Sea off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (Chadden Hunter)
Cameramen Dough Anderson and Hugh Miller created a bespoke underwater tripod which they bolted to the ice ceiling. (Hugh Miller)
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