Baby harp seal

In 1993 I traveled to the Magdalen Islands off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada to photograph baby harp seals. I flew by helicopter from the islands out to the pack ice, looking for the seals. When we landed, we had to wear bright orange expedition suits over our parkas in case we fell through a weak spot in the ice. We'd be easier to recover wearing orange. It was minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit. I took this shot laying on the ice -- the baby seal didn't seem to mind my presence. I was shooting with a Mamiya RZ 67 medium format film camera. In this extreme cold, the camera worked fine because it was fully mechanical. But when I finished a roll of 220 Fujichrome film, the adhesive tape that normally bonds the paper roll to prevent it from unraveling didn't work. The 3M adhesive failed. In the severe cold, the only way I could keep the roll of film tight (the paper backing prevented the film from being exposed to light) was to put the rolls in my jean pockets, which were fairly tight. I exposed this shot with a hand held light meter, and I used a 350mm telephoto which was equivalent to a 200mm lens in the 35mm digital format. The camera settings were unrecorded, but they were probably 1/250 and f/5.6.