book and do the exercise and let me know how you make out i was at a networking of them last week and i just stood in the corner and i was watching everyone and some bow were having nice conversations and other looked like somebody was attacking somebody i i found that i you know move closer to those people and the one who was stepping back was i think the other person was telling them all about their business and it felt very uncomfortable to them so a word to as when you're talking to somebody at a networking event as well as i always say them questions and then we can talk about your business let them ask you questions so have a good anna please tell us a little about yourself well there is first of all let me say thank you very much for inviting me it's a it's a pleasure to be here i think you know there's not much actually to say about myself i lived in this area all my life i worked for jane j all my adult life i went to work there when i was seventeen and retired from there my only job point but since my retirement several years ago i had gotten involved in a lot of different types of activities the most important to me however is the with my husband and we were both always taking pictures and when we came home and we looked at the protective epworth that dogmatic religious right you know when we were there and so we kept and working tell us about your love for photography your training and we travel well you know i don't know you just love something you know when you have a passion for something you you love it you can't really explain it i pretty much self taught i'm not a professional photographer i'm an avid hobbyist but i have traveled with some of the best photographers in the world so i've learned from them  d when i was working i was fortunate enough to see most of this country so now that i'm not working i prefer to travel abroad and see the rest of the world know and i love as you mentioned earlier i love to photograph places that are the environment or the culture is different from our own right and as for where i've been i've been to along the same lines africa egypt thailand china bhutan i went to alaska in the middle of the winter to photograph the aurora borealis oh my goodness last year i went all right so must be very cold up there is it is a little chilly or a little it's a little chilly so i wanted to go there there were other places that you can photograph polar bears but i wanted to do this particular understand that people also go to church you know canada yes and why did you choose but burke and churchill churchill and spitzbergen offer very different experiences in churchill every october or so the bears congregate around the shores of the hudson bay and there are what they're doing is they're waiting for the ice to form on the basis that they can go out and hunt so if you go to churchill you'll see a lot of bears but you'll see them on land ok when you go to spit en you'll see fewer bears brain but you see them on the ice where they live in their natural environment doing doing what polar bears do and that's what i wanted to a this is what it looks like up there it's very very pristine as you can see this is just as we left long year been with her which is where we picked up the ship and this this wall of ice just went on for miles and miles and we are the next like year ago i don't know how well you can see this map this is the archipelago and we started settlement on earth there are no people living above that latitude so then we took the ship up and around and down between the islands and then off to the east out into the barents se and that's where we photographed the polar bears and how long did it take you to get there a couple of days we were out on the ice actually ten days on the boat and here's another shot of the scenery as we're making our way and when you know what happens when photographer see a cave i mean they want to get in the zodiacs and we want to go in the cave take the picture from the inside out your rank our our arctic i'd said absolutely not no way ain't happenin you know so i don't have that photograph of you that's right but this was the guy who was responsible for our safety so comforting there's no television no cell phones no newspapers no internet nothing you are totally totally off the the grid but it is it is very you ever go there you must go on an ice class ship and the most important question to ask because the itineraries may not tell you but this is a former swedish maritime ship which has been refurbished and it has six guest cabins so there were eight of us across the crew and i see those stakes in the ice yeah well what happens is you can't drop an anchor up there  so what they do is they the the crew gets out in the drill a hole in an iceberg put a stake in and then tie the ship to the stakes ok and that's where you're parked overnight oh ok all right difference this was a shot taken from a zodiac we did get off the ship occasionally for and that's our ship in the in the rear there so this is our first beer we have now arrived at the baron's scene this is that's what it looks like the first week in august when and this was the first day and it was so exciting because we were all incredible sense of smell and you can see right there he's yelling the food from the ship running that you know what he's doing and in this shot he's right next to the ship so if you look at the bottom right hand corner of that foetal you see the shadow of our ship in the water and that bear is right there and i took that with a fifty millimeter lens so they come light up you don't have to be anywhere near them you know you park like a quarter mile  creamy colored ones are that color because of their diet so they feed on seals and it's the oil in the in the seals right that makes their fur appear coming and black and that's it's highly u v absorbent and it's there to preserve heat so that and they don't get cold in this they don't get cold they've got about six inches of blubber and then but this is also pray for the polar bear this guy not so much i know can see why you look at those tucked up on the right so they can they can gain length up to about three feet long and they can weigh about thirteen pounds and so it's a formidable opponent as you can see here this guy's been in a little scuffle he's he's got some wounds there  yeah the polar bears are very very strong swimmers they swim about six miles an hour which is about twenty percent faster than michael phelps olympic record w they can leap out of the water seven or eight feet just swimming start where they need to be strong swimmers particularly now because of climate change and 're about the year and a half two years on one k so they have documented now the longest swim by about polar bear and four hundred twenty seven miles over ten days during which time the beer never paused to sleep or to eat oh my god i just when i am just swam in the course of that swim it lost its cub all the babies you know can't make it and it lost a lot of weight in that you know a lot of that is all too to climate change which is a sea serious problem there are our arctic guy who works twelve to sixteen hours a day eleven days or weeks and months out of the year you told us that he had not seen a yearling cub all season are so they're not surviving on current the the cubs and the statistics are starting to show that but i don't think that what i wanted went to the guides so as i said earlier today they stay dry brush the only thing that actually gets wet or gets cold in the bottoms of their feet or paws and their nose on kind of the water just drips off them they they stay actually warm and then when they come up on shore yes so it's really it's really cute the the water is very calm of the air in the summer there are a wins you find wins so you get a lot of these sharks with the reflections and the bears love the reflection and they love to look at themselves in the water you see them coming in all the time and it's not because he's hunting because they hunt with their ears more than there's like their they're looking at themselves on for this is one of my favorite shots with a mirror mirror in the see who could possibly be pretty where they were they were to the left of that glacier in the dark area and you can see there's no ice there right now so mamma was afraid to take her baby in the water so they were very very thin because there's no food and now we're in the zodiac taking the photograph right we all wanted to go back to the ship and get some chicken oh yeah and going but our guy said no no absolutely not can't do that but oh he assured us that you know they'd be fine as soon as the water froze and make if you are a hunter and i hope he was being truthful believe ok so when we returned this is what was in the harbor this is greenpeace we didn't know at the time what they were doing there i didn't notice that we'll meet was off the menu of the local restaurant that night we found out the next day that greenpeace was there because norway was doing seismic mapping of the those seismic booms are very very loud and they can harm the mammals who are in the water particularly whales who depend on sound for their livel but then the second reason is norway always has said that they would never allow anybody to drill for oil in ice covered waters right so why would they do  why would they doing this so greenpeace was there doing with they were doing exposing them and you know we have people who are tracking their anger i'm right but hell and can you imagine what it would be like if an iceberg hit an oil rig here oh my god i will have only to look at what happened down in the gulf right in temperate waters near large population centers brain with recovery resources readily available and it's still the largest disaster waiver had so iran happened there and our own government the department of interior says it will happen there's a seventy five percent chance that it will happen so i happened there we never found out you know we'd never get it cleaned up so so my advice to anybody who who's interested in seeing this area is go now go now go now frightened because they they don't have peripheral vision so if you come up alongside them scare them oh ok i was well i was right in front of him yeah and we were kissing and you know and then i said can i bring him home you know if you're talking about spitzbergen you can e mail me at my e mail address is right there diana ross that comcast dot net because i have a great resource and that was our arctic  only works ice class ships and as i said i am a class if you don't have ice class you will be able to go where i win you'll stay south and you won't get these kinds of pictures so you do have to have eyes class ships but  i can put you in touch with this person and he's not an employee he's that he's a a maritime specialist ok and he can for your needs and your budget and realize you which would be the best ship the best tour to go on you know other than that there are a lot of great travel tour groups out there right if you're in to perturb or fee and that's what you want to do i my advice to you would be to find you know a great photographer they usually run their own trips and go with vem rather than you know a larger tour group where the photographer is an employee you know because usually on those kind of trips they just want to get a free trip and take their own photos they're not interested in teaching you right yeah you know yeah so my little tips our right thank you and i want to thank you all for joining us today and i hope you enjoyed our presentation today it's a little different from what we do you know first skyrocket your business but i ala dress again and then diana frost at comcast dot net ok and when you go to your next networking event think about you know what i talked about of not pushing your services on other people but asking question and have them if you a question and one other thing then i saw or was somebody was walking around and and i hope your business is prospering and take time to look at my bank's going back to your business in thirty days while having golfing with helen and do the exercises and let me know how