Better Moments - Svalbard Expedition
Here at Better Moments, we are all passionated photographers and travelers at heart. This is reflected in the exciting and immersive range of workshops across the globe we have meticulously crafted - for instance Svalbard.
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Better Moments - Svalbard Photo Workshop Behind the Scenes
Svalbard Expedition - Land of the Polar Bears
Meet passionate photographers Peter Hannan from Australia, Kristi Metsa from Estonia, and Lou Newman from the US, who traveled to Svalbard with us.
Our Better Moments explore Svalbard expedition and voyage is undertaken in the spirit of discovery, and our travel in the archipelago is exploratory by design. This part of the world is not ruled by humans, but by polar bears and the weather. We let the nature guide our course.
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Better Moments was founded by photographer Christian Nørgaard. Today, Better Moments is a leading workshop agency dedicated to organizing high-end workshops for photo enthusiasts worldwide. Better Moments' slogan is – Photography with passion.
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Better Moments - Iceland Workshop Behind the Scenes
Iceland Travel on Volcanoes Workshop.
Meet our guest, Prof. Dr. Juergen Wettke from Germany and encounter the incomparable treasures of Iceland's wild nature, by 4x4 and helicopter.
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Better Moments - Svalbard Photo Workshop w/ Anders Geidemark
LAND OF THE POLAR BEARS
Visit Svalbard in the spirit of expedition. Travel and live on the seas while exploring the captivating ice landscape of Svalbard.
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Greenland Guest singing - Better Moments AS
Greenland guests singing a song for us while having lunch in Forlandsundet in west Svalbard.
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Better Moments - Svalbard Expedition Behind the Scenes
Svalbard Expedition - Land of the Polar Bears
Meet passionate photographer Kees van Straten from the Netherlands, who traveled to Svalbard with us.
Our Better Moments explore Svalbard expedition and voyage is undertaken in the spirit of discovery, and our travel in the archipelago is exploratory by design. This part of the world is not ruled by humans, but by polar bears and the weather. We let the nature guide our course.
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Web: better-moments.com
Instagram: instagram.com/bettermomentstravel
Facebook: facebook.com/bettermoments
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Better Moments was founded by photographer Christian Nørgaard. Today, Better Moments is a leading workshop agency dedicated to organizing high-end workshops for photo enthusiasts worldwide. Better Moments' slogan is – Photography with passion.
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#BetterMomentsWorkshop
#PhotographyWithPassion
Glacier Kayaking - Svalbard, Norway
Kayaking around the Svea Glacier in Svalbard, Norway with Better Moments.
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Svalbard
Apologies for my bad videography in advance but here's a taste of the magnificent trip we took to Svalbard in April 2016. Seven days in Svalbard, out on the ice everyday except for one, marvelling at the scenery and looking for polar bears. Such a fantastic place.
With many, many thanks to Base Camp Better Moments and of course the marvellous Svalbard Wildlife Expeditions
Music by Martyn Bennett, Blackbird from Grit (Real World Gold)
Redbay Boats || Better Moments 12m
Better Moments, 12M Redbay
Norway
Svalbard Topptur 2017
18 skifolk på Topptur. Larsbreen ved Longyearbyen - Lars Hiertafjellet og Trollsteinen. Billefjorden med R.I.B. - på Campbellryggen med utsikt til Pyramiden og Nordenskioldbreen!
How To Visit Svalbard
- - I had an enormous amount of B-roll footage of Svalbard that I couldn't use, and the internet had a lot of questions about how to get there. Time to solve both those problems in one go!
Exploring Svalbard 2017
A 10 hour snowmobile trip to the Eastcoast of Svalbard, a dog sled tour up bolterdalen and trips to the coasts near Longyearbyen.
Music: Vexento - Lonely Dance
Svalbard MAY 2017
Our cruise around Svalbard
Svalbard by boat
If you want to see and experience as much of the wild, raw and untouched Arctic nature as possible, you need to go on a boat trip or a combined cruise and fishing trip. Svalbard's unique wildlife is also best seen from a boat, and among the most popular activities you'll find walrus safari and whale safari. The Russian settlements is also reached by boat, both in summer and winter, and there are serveral touroperators offering day trips to both Barentsburg and Pyramiden.
From early spring until late November or early December, you have many options to depart the quayside in Longyearbyen by boat to explore beautiful Svalbard. Many different types of trips are available so you need to decide what really interests you. Does a short trip by rigid inflatable boat (RIB) to the spectacular bird cliffs tempt you or perhaps the world’s northernmost fjord cruise to Pyramiden – the ghost town in the High North – sounds exciting? There is no shortage of options. The menu often consists of large glacier termini, exciting Arctic wildlife and a tasty lunch straight from the barbecue. Travelling by express boat reduces the travel time to the Russian settlements of Barentsburg and Pyramiden and enables you to visit both places on the same day.
Unique wildlife on sea
Roy MangersnesSvalbard’s unique animal life is well worth experiencing. If you have dreamt of having a close-up encounter with a walrus or experiencing the world’s largest mammal – the majestic whale – then we recommend a walrus and whale safari during the Polar Summer. You can see, smell and photograph the walruses laying and rolling on the beach while enjoying the panoramic view from the boat.
If you visit in the autumn when the Midnight Sun season has ended, you can experience a Northern Lights cruise. Can you imagine a more magical way of experiencing the Northern Lights? The calm Polar Night allows you to gather impressions and find peace and tranquillity out at sea. Far removed from artificial light, you will be able to experience the majestic Northern Lights stronger than ever.
Video by Adam Bergsveen.
Boat Trips in Svalbard
If you want to see and experience as much of the wild, raw and untouched Arctic nature as possible, you need to go on a boat trip or a combined cruise and fishing trip. Svalbard's unique wildlife is also best seen from a boat, and among the most popular activities you'll find walrus safari and whale safari. The Russian settlements is also reached by boat, both in summer and winter, and there are serveral touroperators offering day trips to both Barentsburg and Pyramiden.
Svalbard 2018
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
February 2018
Music: Uppermost - Beautiful light
Huskies, Reindeer, and Whales, Oh My!
Today we explored a bit of Longyearbyen before our Catch of the Day boat tour with Better Moments AS. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone looking to get outside of Longyearbyen and see more of the incredible Svalbard!
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Daylight by Beauvois on SoundCloud
Gravity by Jurrivh & Feelo on Spotify
Northern Wind cover on SoundCloud
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Life as a guide on Svalbard
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The Northernmost Town on Earth (Svalbard in 4K)
Longyearbyen on Svalbard is the northernmost settlement with over 1000 residents
My trip to Norway was funded by Screen Australia, Film Victoria and Genepool Productions as part of a new project. More information soon.
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Come take a walk with me around Longyearbyen, the largest town on the Norwegian islands of Svalbard.
Parts of it look familiar, but make no mistake, this place is different.
At 78 degrees North, it lies just 800 miles or 1300 kilometres from the North Pole. And with over 2,000 permanent inhabitants it is the Northernmost real town on Earth.
There are only 50km of road, including the small streets between houses, so people get around the island mainly on snowmobile.
In fact there are more registered snowmobiles than residents.
Anyone leaving town is required to travel with a gun and someone who knows how to use it because the islands are also home to polar bears.
The average daytime high is below freezing for all but four months of the year, and from the end of October to mid-February the sun doesn’t rise at all. This is the long polar night.
Living here is tough. This past December an avalanche in town destroyed 10 homes, which used to be here, killing two people.
So how did this cold, remote, ice-covered archipelago come to be inhabited?
The hills around town are rich in coal deposits that have been mined for over 100 years.
The coal was transported to the port via a series of aerial tramways some of which remain today, though they are no longer operational.
Coal is a reminder that Svalbard was not always an Arctic ice world. 360 million years ago it was actually in the tropics North of the equator. A swampy area, it was covered with the precursors to modern ferns, which were much larger than they are today, reaching 10-30 metres in height.
This vegetation was then covered in mud and sand and submerged under the sea. Over time it turned into the coal deposits that in the 20th century brought miners from Norway, Russia, and the US.
Most of the coal mines have now closed and the economy is gradually shifting towards tourism, education and research.
Tourists take trips on snowmobiles and dog sleds.
There is a university centre in Svalbard, which offers semester courses in biology, physics and geology.
And up on the side of a mountain is the Svalbard Global seed vault… but that’s a story for another time.
The locals tell me that interest in the region from different nations is increasing.
As the globe warms and Arctic ice shrinks, trade routes are opening up across the North. And Svalbard is strategically placed between North America, Asia and Europe.
One day in the future Svalbard may no longer be as cold or remote as it once was.
But for now it is a reminder of how through our ingenuity people can live in the most inhospitable of places.
Shot with a DJI Phantom 4 drone
Svalbard Snow mobile
A short film about our trip to Svalbard Norway March 2018. We had 3 brilliant but very cold days on Snow mobile together with Better Moments