Antarctica & South Georgia

A lone king penguin stretches in a snow flurry at sunrise on the beach at St. Andrew's Bay.

A curious group of king penguins interrupt their morning stroll to investigate the photographer at St. Andrew's Bay.

Penguins at St. Andrew's Bay give the photographer the hairy eyeball.

The photographer is reflected in the eye of a king penguin at sunrise.

A weddel seal relaxes on the ice at Portal Point.

My favourite of the small penguin species, the gentoo brings me back to my days working in IT.

A juvenile elephant seal calf enjoys the morning sun.

On a calm evening after sunset, the glacier emerges from the mist.

Ephemeral mountain ranges are formed in iceberg graveyards. Here one day and collapsed the next, they are never the same twice. Here a few Antarctic terns look on from the lower ridge.

Removing context allows us to focus in the intricate patterns and subtle hues of the iceberg.

A leopard seal waits for the penguins to enter the water with the massive penguin colony in the background.

Light hits a scree slope with the last remaining snow of winter clinging to a crack in the rocks above the whaling station at Leith Harbour.

It's hard not to imagine speech bubbles above the heads of the king penguins when they gather like this!