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Humpback whale diving, Antarctica.

Tail flukes.

A Humpback whale displays its tail flukes as it dives to feed. Antarctica. The markings on the underside of the humpback’s tail are as individual as human fingerprints

Rusting away, Antarctica.

Rusting in Antarctica

A grounded shipwreck from the days of whaling rusts slowly in Antarctica.

spy hopping

Spy hopping

A humpback whale puts its head above water to check out its surroundings.

Gentoo chick calling for its parent, Weddell Island, Falkland Islands

Gentoo Penguins, Weddell Island

Gentoos are quite a successful species. Whereas the range for some penguin species has shrunk in recent years, the range for Gentoos has actually extended with them displacing other species in some locations.

What does it all mean?

A mystery or simply mundane?

The Italian Rowing Club, Tigre, Argentina.

Green, white and red, and high ISO

An exercise in digital noise suppression using multiple images in Photoshop

A Gentoo Penguin chick sits at the edge of a colony.

Chick on the edge.

when photographing a penguin colony, it’s worth looking around the edges of the group to try and isolate an individual.

A wide-angle lens and a low viewpoint.

Hanging with Al.

Black-browed albatross nest on several of the Falkland Islands. By February most of the chicks are well developed, some with their adult plumage starting to show through.

Gentoo Penguin launches itself from the water

Penguins can fly.

A recent visit to the Falkland Islands revealed that penguins can fly, or at least some penguins can jump very well!

Molten candle

The flickering candle

an experiment in image processing.