Stolen Soul

Stolen SoulIn Antartica, Gentoo penguins undergo a huge struggle to protect their precious eggs for months before the hatch. Its almost impossible not to create an emotional bond, so when I observed this brown skua swoop down and steal this egg, my heart skipped a beat. Eventually my practical side reminded me that the brown skua has young to feed also but it was still a sad moment. I had been standing in the icy wind for hours, watching the penguin colony, when

It still amazes me how well they navigate through the ice

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this popular image is one that does not disappoint

I sat with it for hours with my engines off as it came up to breath

Each location around the world they have taken advantage of a different ecological niche

but Mark favourite days are when the weather in rolling in through the North West Passage

The Inuit are excellent trackers and can read prints well so this lead them to believe its true as its otherwise unexplainable

my sister was visiting and Id taken her out on the zodiac for sunrise which was also low tide

that they would be funnelled towards where I had been seeing the dolphins the previous days

An icy gaze from a Weddell Seal spotted on the edge of the ice floe close to Antarctic circle

I often choose to not have people in landscape shots I compose but in this one I choose to leave them in

the more your learn about these amazing creatures the easier it is to fall in love with them