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Photographer Audun Rikardsen won the Grand Prize at the California Academy of Sciences' BigPicture competition for his image, "A Seal's Last Sight." The photograph, taken north of Svalbard, Norway, shows a polar bear peering through a seal's breathing hole, simulating the seal's final moments. Rikardsen used a Canon EOS 6D and an EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM lens, employing a motion sensor and drilling through ice to position the camera. After setting up the rig, he waited 17 hours for a polar bear to appear, which then slept above the camera for nine hours before leaving.
TAKEAWAYS
The photograph "A Seal's Last Sight" won the Grand Prize at the BigPicture: Natural World Photography Competition.
The image was captured by Audun Rikardsen using a Canon EOS 6D and a wide-angle lens.
It depicts a polar bear from the perspective of a seal at its breathing hole.
The shot required three years of planning and a 17-hour stakeout for the polar bear.