Getting a camera eye-to-eye with a polar bear in the Arctic wilderness sounds like a wildlife photographer's dream. But Audun Rikardsen found a clever way to do it, placing his DSLR camera beneath the sea ice so that the animal could be photographed from a seal's perspective.
The result, Icy Window, shows a polar bear peering straight down through a breathing hole – and has now been highlighted in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
