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Capturing a dolphin in mid-jump was very challenging, but they gave me the opportunity when they kept racing alongside the boat playfully. I set the zoom lens to 100mm (as little as possible) to increase the field of view. I then tried timing a series of bursts, anticipating when they would jump. A little luck and a little skill combined to give me this awesome image. The spray off the boat, visible as white dots in the lower right, only added to the feeling of the image. Atlantic Ocean, about 30 miles west of Cape Town, South Africa
Porpoising Dolphin ~ Gulf of Mexico ~ Clearwater Beach, Florida
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 250, f/8.0, 44mm, 1/2000s
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Dusky Dolphin, Kaikoura, New Zealand
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Dolphin Beach can usually be spotted from a fair distance away by the colourful kites that are being flown above it.
Macro Mondays - Glass, August 24th 2020
- Laser engraving of dolphins in glass cuboid
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Two Common Dolphins, of the Cornish Coast at Padstow
The common dolphin is the name given to two species (and possibly a third) of dolphin making up the genus Delphinus.
Prior to the mid-1990s, most taxonomists only recognised one species in this genus, the common dolphin Delphinus delphis. Modern cetologists usually recognise two species — the short-beaked common dolphin, which retains the systematic name Delphinus delphis, and the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis.
The common dolphin is not the dolphin of popular imagination despite its name; that distinction belongs to the bottlenose dolphin due to its widespread use in marine parks and its appearance in the television series Flipper.However, this dolphin was the most frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
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In Cardiff Bay and the adjacent Cardiff docks complex, there are many structures that remain from when Cardiff was the world's premier coal exporting port.
One of the most recognisable - and most photographed (well, by me, anyway!) - are the mooring 'dolphins'.
Their purpose was to allow ships waiting to enter the docks to tie up to them to stop the ships toppling over when the tide retreated and the ships rested on the tidal mud flats.
Despite being built about 120 years ago, there are quite a few of these structures still remaining.
In this image, I've applied a slight sepia tone and vignette to represent how a photograph of a 'dolphin' may have looked when taken in the early Edwardian period - although the water gauge board in metres rather undermines my efforts!
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The Dolphin Inn at Kingston, Devon,
The main building of the pub was originally three 16th Century cottages before being joined together and converted. The cosy interior features exposed stonework and pleasant low lighting.
The whitewashed building opposite the pub is now an accommodation block and is about the ideal distance to go from for a pint! (Or to wander back to after some)
The dolphin breached the water with a corkscrew twist to give additional height. It reached about 5m clear of the water, just avoiding a belly flop on landing! All this with the Ceredigion coastline in the background. A fabulous encounter...
A successful whale watching trip from Kaikoura ended with an exciting performance by the Dusky Dolphins.
We saw several large pods of dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay last week. Composite of dolphins from the bay and the dock area.
Peale's dolphin is of typical size in its family — about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in length at birth and 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) when fully mature. Its adult weight is about 115 kg (254 lb).
It has a dark-grey face and chin. The back is largely black with a single off-white stripe running, curving, and thickened as it runs down the back on each side.
The belly is white. Conspicuously, also, a white patch occurs just behind each flipper. These are known as the "armpits".
The flanks also have a large white-grey patch above the flipper. The dorsal fin is large for this size cetacean and distinctively falcate.
The flippers themselves are small and pointed. The tail fin, too, has pointed tips, as well as a notch at its middle.
The species looks similar to the dusky dolphin when viewed at a distance, and may be confused with it.
This image was taken just after we keft Punta Arenas in Chile on the way to Ushuaia in Argentina
Paraphrased from wikipedia:
The Burrunan dolphin (Tursiops australis) is a species of bottlenose dolphin found in parts of Victoria, Australia. It was recognised as a species only in 2011. By size, the Burrunan dolphin is between the other two species of bottlenose dolphin There are only two resident populations of the Burrunan dolphin; one in Port Phillip and these ones from the Gippsland Lakes. Their combined population has been estimated as about 150 dolphins (100 in Port Phillip and 50 in Gippsland).
The dolphin's common name, Burrunan, is an Aboriginal name in the Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung and Taungurung languages, meaning "large sea fish of the porpoise kind".