Polar Bear Crossing Sea Ice, Barents SeaA lone polar bear picking its way across broken pack ice in the Barents Sea. The panoramic frame gives a sense of just how vast and fragmented this landscape is. Dark water visible between every floe, the ice already well into its summer breakup. The bear is dwarfed by it all, a small bright shape moving with purpose across an enormous, uncertain surface. Flat overcast light, completely diffuse. No shadows, no contrast. Just white ice, dark water, and