Polar Bear in the Mist, Barents SeaThe bear is a small white figure moving across fractured ice and dark water. That's what struck me first. The sheer scale of the Barents Sea reduced this enormous animal to almost nothing against the broken floes stretching to a horizon you could barely distinguish from the sky. Heavy mist flattened everything. No shadows, no contrast, just a pale grey world where ice and atmosphere merged. The dark channels of open water between the floes provided