{"id":3699,"date":"2010-06-16T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T14:55:00","slug":"natures-best-photography-cover-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/natures-best-photography-cover-shot.html","title":{"rendered":"Nature’s Best Photography Cover Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cover image of the current issue of Nature’s Best Photography<\/a> is my photograph of an Adelie penguin taken earlier this year in Antarctica:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Adelie<\/a>

Adelie Penguin, Antarctica, Nature's Best Photography Spring\/Summer 2010. Click to see more images from Antarctica<\/p><\/div>\n

The photo also appears in the interior of the issue, since it was fortunate to be given an honorable mention in this years Ocean Views<\/a> photography contest.<\/p>\n

\"Adelie<\/a>

Adelie Penguins, Antarctica, Nature's Best Photography Ocean Views 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

This image was taken at Paulet Island<\/a> on the Antarctic Peninsula<\/a>, made with a Canon 5D Mark II camera and 24-105mm f\/4 lens (at 24mm), from a zodiac as we were idle alongside an iceberg. If you want to see what the situation was like when I took this shot — and you should, since it will make you want to visit Antarctica yourself! — see my blog post about this encounter from earlier this year<\/a>. Several Adelie penguins<\/a> (Pygoscelis adeliae<\/a><\/em>) walked to the edge of an berg to get a good look at us as we cruised around Paulet Island at sunset, and allowed me to rattle off a series of “close\/wide” images of them. Honestly, while the encounter was one of the most special moments of the trip for me, Adelie penguins are so numerous and inquisitive that I think situations like this — and photos like the above — are probably rather common in Antarctica. It is one of the reasons I intend to return as soon as I can.<\/p>\n

Next: Paulet Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica<\/a>
\nPrevious: Pack Ice at the Edge of the Weddell Sea<\/a>
\nTrip Index: Cheesemans Antarctica, Falklands and South Georgia<\/a>
\nAll “Southern Ocean” entries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cover image of the current issue of Nature’s Best Photography is my photograph of an Adelie penguin taken earlier this year in Antarctica: The photo also appears in the interior of the issue, since it was fortunate to be given an honorable mention in this years Ocean Views photography…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,190,114],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-antarctica","7":"category-penguin","8":"category-southern-ocean"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}