Norbert Rosing has been photographing polar bears for 25 years. In 1989, he captured his first polar bear images in Churchill, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. He was there to photograph the beauty of the Arctic, but he wasn’t looking for polar bears in particular. When he crossed paths with one, however, its beauty struck him. In his words, he “got stuck.”

“I was driving on a gravel road with my cheap car and all of the sudden a big bear walked towards me. The appearance and the look of the polar bear just drove into my heart and I was sitting there with an open mouth. The bear walked towards a freshly frozen lake, dove underneath the thin ice,