Reindeer in the polar night

Forest reindeer in the blue hours of the kaamos, when the sun never quite rises.

Snow

Reindeer 01
Reindeer 02 Reindeer close snowy forest · 600mm · f/4 · 1/800 · ISO 4000
Reindeer 03 Herd roaming inari · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/500 · ISO 2000
Reindeer 04 Reindeer inari · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1000 · ISO 5000
Reindeer 05 Forest reindeer rovaniemi · 500mm · f/4 · 1/400 · ISO 1250
Reindeer 06 Reindeer antlers snowy forest · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/1250 · ISO 3200
Reindeer 07 Reindeer in snowy forest · 600mm · f/4 · 1/320 · ISO 2500
Reindeer 08 Solitary reindeer murmansk · 600mm · f/4 · 1/1600 · ISO 6400
Reindeer 09 Reindeer close murmansk · 400mm · f/2.8 · 1/640 · ISO 1600

In the polar night the light is blue for four hours and then it is gone. The forest reindeer of Inari move through it like they are made of the same stuff. Everything here was shot handheld at f/2.8, at speeds I would not admit to.