Golden Hour

Golden HourIn the High Arctic at 74 degrees north the sun does not set for a few months during the summer. Mark waited into the early hours of the morning to capture this image of a pod of Belugas as the sun came close to the horizon for the golden hour. Prize Sizes: Sizing Guide Page SMALL: 12" x 8" (+0. 2" border) Only 100 Limited Editions. All include a certificate with hologram, signature and edition series. MEDIUM: 24" x 16" (+0. 3" border) Only 100 Limited

After warming up with our morning coffee

The seals will always stay close to a fracture line or maintain a breathing hole (or Aglu in Inuktitut) which they use to escape into the safe of the water

He and his sister were playing with it for hours together at a distance and then he surprised me and popped up not far from the boat

That split second as the elusive and mystical narwhal surfaces from the deep

they spy hopped close to the boat and we could hear them echo locating underwater through the rubber hull of the zodiac

in the split second before the surface tension of the water had been broken and the orca breach the surface

This heart shaped exhalation came out of a humpback just before it dove and until this day

bubbles of air depending on the destiny of the ice we get to see many different colours like these outer-worldly blues ones

One of my favourite images to print and it can look great in a number of room as it really offers a subtle window into nature

if you look carefully you can see the glow of Purple Saxifrage in the foreground

It’s hard to describe what it feels like to be immersed in this surreal icy world on a small inflatable boat

This little one was less than a year old and part of the local Jpod resident family