Ice Orca

Ice OrcaOrcas are fascinating marine mammals, extremely intelligent and have made themselves at home in every ocean in the world. In Antartica there are different ecotypes, each specialising in different prey, anywhere from minke whales, seals and even penguins. Each location around the world they have taken advantage of a different ecological niche, New Zealand they eat sting rays, British Colombia the residents eat salmon, Norway herring, some live far

This was a very special shot Mark captured as was actually selected as a favourite by the whole ships expedition team for a wedding gift of our Expedition Leader at the time who got married in a tiny church on South Georgia

as they were heading to a never before explored area

An unusual perspective captured from the sky of a Ring Seal resting on the frozen ocean of the North West Passage

Transient killer whales predate mainly on harbour seals

drank my tea and from a few miles away kept the orcas within the focal range of my binoculars

As if time has slowed down

Each species of baleen whale has its own unique pattern when exhaling

the water falls of this humpback whales flukes

as he passed

Mark captured this in an extremely remote region of Canada’s High Arctic

It was not until I finally turned around

bubbles of air depending on the destiny of the ice we get to see many different colours like these outer-worldly blues ones