Sitting Polar Bear, Barents SeaA single polar bear sits upright on the broken sea ice of the Barents Sea, snout raised, seemingly testing the air. It looks remarkably small against that vast field of fractured ice stretching to the horizon in every direction. The scale is what strikes you first. Thousands of ice plates and fragments, and one bear, alone in the middle of it all. I made this photograph from the deck of our expedition vessel as we moved slowly through the pack ice