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A group of Pilot Whales is an incredibly lucky encounter in the Mediterranean, considering that the estimates of their population size are in the hundreds of individuals. Once you do happen to find them, however, you are rewarded with some of the most breathtaking interactions of the marine world, as long-finned Pilot Whales are some of the most curious and playful wild creatures I've ever seen.
A big thank you to Tethys research institute for making such experiences possible, and for all the research and conservation they do to protect these creatures.
In this picture I also managed to capture the incredibly smooth texture of their Melon, with a reflection of the research vessel "Pelagos".
Went whale watching the other day and saw this whale. According to the guide who has been logging whales in the area for a few years, this one is called Music. I don't know how she names the whales, maybe something to do with their tail markings.
double exposure. whale skeleton at the moma by gabriel orozco. the other exposure is the side of a building, I think. those aren't dust flakes mostly, they are lights and other stuff from the other exposure. looks scifi anyhow.
Konica Autoreflex T with 50mm f1.8 Hexanon lens.
Cheap 200iso film.
Scanned with Epson V300.
Just a simple shot again with the iphone sat inside a car, I am really enjoying this style of photography at the moment, all the flaws and imperfections are creating a stronger image on my opinion.
Whale Belly bridge was pretty cool. I later started a fire and got the bastard to sneeze, then out I came covered in whale slime.
I did get a tale to tell so it was all good.
For a long time ships would crash and sink on the notorious Whale Rock just outside the coastline. Until the light house was build next to it. Now ships can sail safely past it.
The Light House has 4 rooms, an attic, lantern on the top and an outdoor privy. The rooms and roof can be opened for acces. The outdoor privy can be opened and has a fully functioning and deeply satisfying hole to drop whatever that's left from the food eaten the day before into the sea below.
Sometimes I wish I could live in such a place...
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Sometimes the journey is much more interesting than it's destination. And to me this MOC is just that.
This MOC was a personal victory for me. It's the biggest and for me most complex thing I did. Took about 6 months planning, saving parts and building. And each step in the building proces was a torture to get it right. There where at least 3 times I had to count to a hundred to prevent myself from slamming the whole freaking thing in a crate and just forget all about it. It made me loose sleep thinking about how to solve building issues. It stopped me from going out when the sun was up.
Corners didn't fit and jumped loose from the base. Roofs didn't line up right. The whole thing even crashed down from the table days before it's deadline when lifted to put something under it.
But I'm happy, now. It was finished on time for Legoworld Utrecht (NL) in October 2013 and now (as always) McBricker was kind enough to take the pictures.
So, now it's done! I can start looking for a new MOC to torture myself ;)
Thanks!
The “whale watching capital” Húsavik is located in the northeast of Iceland. Skálfandi Bay offers the best viewing opportunities for different types of whales. The most common sight is humpback whales. You can book different tours with different types of boats from the local providers. If you don't necessarily want to do a tour (with short-term bookings on the day of the tour, it can happen that all tours are fully booked), I recommend waiting to see what the weather is like on the day of the tour and taking a Zodiac tour if the sea is smooth book (this tour can get extremely wet due to splashing water). The speed of the boats allows a larger radius of action, which significantly increases the chance of sightings and, in addition, the whales actually come closer to the inflatable boat than to the larger boats (inappropriately mostly old whaling boats).
Orcinus Orca
Taken aboard the Pt. Sur Clipper
April 17, 2016 - All Day Whale Watch
Monterey Bay, California
Just so you understand how powerful and huge these waves are. This is a whale at play just behind them scene from the dunes at the back of the beach.
there were more than 5 fin whales around but to get a big ship quick in the right direction is time consuming and difficult, anyway i was lucky to get at least one shot of the second largest animal of our planet, taken on the way to the pack ice north of Spitsbergen
Located in Telegraph Cove and home to one of the best collections of marine mammal skeletons in BC. The bones shown in this particular shot are of a 60 foot Fin Whale which was sadly hit by a cruise ship in early 1999.
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I have seen Grey Whales breaching occasionally, and always in San Ignacio lagoon where they breed. It's a surprise that they can breach at all in this lagoon as it is rather shallow. The shallow water may explain why Grey Whale breaches are never as spectacular as Humpbacks. This is an adult Grey Whale, about 14m long and weighing about 38 tonnes so quite an effort to get this above water. Unlike all other baleen whales Grey Whales are bottom feeders. The sharp snout, robust jaws and short, stiff baleen plates are suited to ploughing the sea bed and stirring up sediment and filtering out crustaceans, molluscs and worms. They also eat the occasional fish but these are probably accidentally taken. One other interesting fact is that Grey Whales nearly always feed on their right sides, and you can see if you zoom in there is an absence of barnacles on that side of the whale's head (the uppermost side). Most of the feeding is done during summer in the Bering Sea but they migrate 3000 miles to Mexico each year to mate and give birth. This breaching whale was photographed at San Ignacio lagoon on the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula.
2024...see ya.
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My best shot from 2024 as seen from the shores of New Jersey, A Whale!
#Explore 1/3/2025 #20
They are bubble feeding What an amazing sight. This was one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen.
Leaving Moor Divock and dropping into the Lowther Valley and the small hamlet of Whale. Eden Valley and the Pennines behind.
Whale's mouth: this effect is the weird-looking sky sometimes appearing when the first gust front of a storm is passing over. The cold downdraft of air of the storm rushes outward and forward along the surface, and lifts the warmer air in the direct vicinity of the storm over its condensation level. One gets to see the back side of this mini cold front, and the inside of the gust front cloud. It looks somewhat like mammatus and other forms of turbulent cloud masses, sometimes showing very neat ordering.
On our way to Juneau on our Alaskan cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line, we saw at least 20 whales and they breached repeatedly as we made our way to port.
This is an adult Grey Whale, about 14m long and weighing about 38 tonnes so quite an effort to get this far above water, especially as the lagoon is largely less than 10m deep. Unlike all other baleen whales Grey Whales are bottom feeders. The sharp snout, robust jaws and short, stiff baleen plates are suited to ploughing the sea bed and stirring up sediment and filtering out crustaceans, molluscs and worms. They also eat the occasional fish but these are probably accidentally taken. One other interesting fact is that Grey Whales nearly always feed on their right sides, so they only have barnacles on the side that does not plough the sea-bed. But if you zoom in on this one there are barnacles on that side of the whale's head (the uppermost side), so this one appears to be a rarer left-sider. Most of the feeding is done during summer in the Bering Sea but they migrate 3000 miles to Mexico each year to mate and give birth. This breaching whale was photographed at San Ignacio lagoon on the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula.
Long Exposure over Whale Beach last weekend.. with the @focusaustralia Group..
Sony A7r2
Sony/Zeiss 16-35 F4 ZA OSS
ISO 100 | 34mm | F11 | 30 sec
Lee Filter - Big Stopper
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From my 2015 road trip from Colorado to California. I've probably posted some of these previously, but trying to clean out and delete my old photo files
I didn't really get any good whale pictures, but this is ok.
Taken in Santa Barbara
Rock shelf south of Whale Beach on Sydney's northern beaches, NSW, Australia
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