Dutch Whalers near Spitsbergen circa 1690 by Abraham Storck
Tag: whales
From Winners of the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest, one of 30 photos. “Breathtaking”. Highly Commended, Wide Angle. We found a pod of Orcas that were circling some herring caught in a net. The animals keep circling the net and we could approach them easily to take some close-up shots. Photographed near Skjervoya, Norway. (© Tobias Friedrich / UPY2018)
Not Photoshopped! This is really what the Salish Sea looked like for a few weeks last August when forest fire season was at its peak across the province.
This is a shot of T019 “Mooyah” (middle) with her two offspring T019C “Spouter” and T019B “Galiano” in Boundary Pass, at about 6:30PM as the sun was falling into the band of sky with the most dense smoke.
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my arctic environment professor on narwhals: “they’re pretty interesting creatures, I guess, even though they’re not birds.”
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A Pretty Taste for Paradox 
