I want to share some more of my favorite photos of the wildlife in Antarctica. I think most of these photos are by my friend Clif, see my previous post on his incredible Instagram photos! I plan to go into more detail about each species like I did in my post about Pinnipeds but for now I just wanted to get my favorite images up before too much time goes by.
An amzing action shot of a whale about to dive. Photo by Clif Hagstrom
Gorgeous shot of a Petrel gliding through the air with a blue ice wall in the backgroun. Photo by Clif Hagstrom.
Incredible photo of a whale fluke as it dives into Wilhelmina Bay. Photo by Clif Hagstrom
Another incredible shot of the Petrel in front of a giant wall of blue ice. Photo by Clif Hagstrom
I love this shot of two Gentoo Penguins and what I believe is a Snowy Sheathbill. I'm not sure who took this photo.
Chinstrap Penguins marching across a rock. Photo by Clif Hagstrom
A Snowy Sheathbill taking a stroll. Not sure who took this one either!
Another great whale shot. Also not sure who took this, but most likely Clif!
Penguins porpoising through the water.
I love this photo of penguins doing a little bow; and I'm proud to say I took this one!
A fluffy little penguin!
Another favorite that I'm sure Clif took.
This Fur Seal looks so cute and reminded me of my dogs a little bit.
This was one of my favorite penguins- look how shiny and clean he is! This photo was taken with my GoPro as a much larger still- the quality of photos from GoPro was really surprising as I was able to crop and zoom in quite a bit without loosing any definition.
A closeup up the marching gentoo penguins.
I was crouching behind some rocks on the beach to take some better photos of the marching penguins.
Two penguins guarding their nest that was meticulously built with rocks and some twigs.
I took some GoPro footage of the penguins at Hannah Point. Here a a couple of my favorites.
In the clip above, penguins are building their nests out of rocks. Penguins are unfortunately not that bright. They often steal rocks from other penguin nests- but while they're out collecting (or stealing rocks) they are also becoming victims of theft. If you stand and watch long enough, you can see one rock stolen and passed around in a circle- essentially whichever penguin is closes to the external rocks is doing all the work while the rest just steal and pass around the same rocks unknowingly.
This is a clip of some penguins marching along the black sand beach. We were hiking on the lower part of a mountain while this was filmed.
A Gentoo (right) and several Chinstrap penguins (left).
A thirsty Chinstrap penguin eating some snow for hydration.
