Highlights
Nature´s Best Photography Awards
Norbert Rosing has been nominated as a winner for the "International Photo Competition" of the world famous nature photographers.
Banner of National Geographic Germany
This huge banner has been shown in Berlin Unter den Linden.
Polar Bear Fever
The new rock-star of the animal world
Polar Bear Fever with Norbert Rosing on ©Canadian Broadcasting Centre
Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition
Animals in their Environment
Freezing Issues
Flying over Hudson Bay, I saw the bears. It was so beautiful. But the cracks in the ice symbolise their future. For two decades, I've visited this place and every year spring has arrived earlier and autumn arrived later. Last year, it was November before the ice was thick enough for the bears to start walking to their hunting grounds.
Polar bears are the largest bears in the world. They spend their lives on the Arctic ice, hunting small mammals and birds on the icy plains, catching seals and whales in the cold waters. Bears in Hudson Bay, where the ice melts completely in the summer, wait ashore for it to snow, unable to feed. They need ice to survive.
Leica R9 with 70-180mm zoom lens; 1/500 sec at f8; gyro stabilizer; Fujichrome Velvia 100.
Animals at Play
Stuart Brown, a physician and clinical researcher who founded the National Institute for Play, describes Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs.
Animals at Play from Speaking of Faith on Vimeo.
Produced by Trent Gilliss
Photos by Norbert Rosing
Narration by Stuart Brown
The images are available for prints from National Geographic Image Collection.
Environmental Issues Winner
Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Awards
This image was taken from a cruise ship in an archipelago near the island of Svalbard, Norway. It was late August, and as far as I could see, the Arctic Ocean was covered with small pieces of broken sea ice drifting slowly along with the current. This polar bear hardly moved the entire time I watched him from the ship. The only place it could have gone was to the nearest island by swimming.
When I returned to my home in Germany, I continued to watch the weather map of Svalbard at 79° North, far above the Arctic Circle. The temperature stayed above freezing long into the winter.
Will this be the future of polar bears, waiting for ice to form, which may not happen early enough for them to hunt for seals? Then what? That is a scary thought.
Leica R9; 28-90mm lens; 1/800 sec at f/5.6; Fujichrome Velvia 100; Rue Window Pod.
Portfolio "Magazin, Naturfoto December 2006"
The german magazine "NATURFOTO" published a 8-pages publication about the new book "The World of the Polar Bear".
Stamp "Bavarian Forest National Park"
Proudly I present the first stamp which was created from a photograph by me taken in the Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany. It was designed by Prof. Johannes Graf and will be sold in Germany.
100 best wildlife pictures in the National Geographic Magazine
It's the greatest collection of wildlife photographs ever published in one magazine. Of course, there are pictures from Norbert Rosing.National Geographic Magazine Publications
12/2005 Refuge in White
Getting into Canada's Wapusk National Park is no easy feat. Only the most rugged adventurers can measure up to its unforgiving terrain. But it's the perfect place for the park's main residents, one of the world's largest polar bear populations. Photographer Norbert Rosing introduces them and their wilderness home.10/2004 Arctic foxes
Equipped with thick fur and fur-covered feet, these little foxes are able to cover long distances in 40-below-zero conditions.02/2004 Polar bears
Close-up images of polar bears in Hudson Bay (Canada).07/2002 Bald eagles
A report of the majestic national bird of the U.S.04/2002 Muskoxen
Norbert Rosing is reporting on the formerly endangered species of muskoxen. It nearly became extinct in North America a century ago, in large part because it was hunted recklessly for its coat and meat, and adults were killed so calves could be captured for zoos.09/2001 Walrusses
Norbert Rosing's second story in the National Geographic Magazine is published in the September 2001 issue. On 14 pages it features the live of Atlantic Walrusses and Polar bears.09/2000 Polar bears
The NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE has published my first cover story in their December issue 2000. The story features a day in the life of Polar bear triplets.
Multimedia-Show: Follow a polar bear family across the ice while photographer Norbert Rosing narrates this multimedia slideshow. (Flashplayer resp. plugin required)
Once a month, GEO.de publishes exclusive photos from top-photographers. In July 2003 Norbert Rosing comes off as winner with his photo showing a female polar bear with its cub.
In the competition 2002 run by the magazine NATURE's BEST, category "Wildlife" I won the first prize.
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