The Home of Reindeer

Description

Wildlife photography doesn’t always mean just detailed portraits. I equally love to photograph animals in the context of the environment in which they live. Nature in Svalbard offers many breathtaking views and directly encourages this approach. This photo of young Svalbard reindeer was taken on the last day of summer and was a reward for the strenuous climbing on the plateau, the existence of which you would doubt when viewed from below. And it probably wouldn’t have occurred to you at all that reindeer are coming here, as they don’t move in the rocky terrain with the certainty and elegance that we know from chamois or ibex, for example.