I'd like to share some of the amazing photos taken by some of my new friends who happen to be extremely skilled photographers. My new friends Clif, Stacey & Joe have captured some of the best moments of the trip in a way that many of us could not.
If you're on Instagram, I promise you will not regret following Clif's feed @levartz.
Cliff was there for one of the funniest moments of the trip: when a Skua picked up my GoPro and tried to run off with it. Fortunately the Skua dropped it and I recovered the GoPro that was rolling at throughout the incident. Check out the clip here.
Clif is amazing at capturing moments; he's somehow mastered the art of capturing whatever actually made the moment one worthy of taking a photo if that makes any sense. I mean- look at the face on this seal!
I love this picture. The Elephant Seal calf and the penguins around him on the beach- too cute. Side note: Elephant Seals do not eat penguins, hence their harmonious existence at Deception Island.
This is the version Clif chose for Instagram; I'd love to share the original later- it is such an amazing photo that it almost looks fake.
This photo is just so perfect there are no words. It captures exactly how it felt when we looked at this scene in real life.
Who doesn't like some good tail? I gave up trying to capture whale tales and just enjoyed watching them; thankfully Cliff and others had faster fingers and better camera skills!
In my posts about Lemaire Channel and the French Passage, I referenced the amazing sunset we experienced. As promised, I've put together some photos shared by my fellow passengers as well as my live GoPro footage (scroll to bottom for footage). Special thank you to Vicky and maybe Stacey/Clif for most of these pics!
This is another amazing photo captured by someone else as we began our sunset journey.
We stood on the bow and watched the sun drop into the horizon.
The colors were so intense- everyone captured such different views and angles of the sun.
I love thee colors in this photo.
The clouds changed shapes and colors as quickly as the sun set.
Almost gone...
One of my favorites because of the colors. Love.
I'm not sure who captured this photo but I think it's Vicky & Sully.
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And here's my live GoPro footage of the sunset. It was so perfect.
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.
