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

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

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

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.

The sun struggles to burn through the fog in Charlotte Bay, Antarctica.

A lone king penguin inspects the photographer at sunrise on the beach at St. Andrew's Bay, one of the largest king penguin colonies in the world.

A pair of king penguins relax at Peggoty Bluff, South Georgia. This is the spot where Shackleton landed after his epic voyage from Elephant Island.

A low lying bank of fog descends over a glacier in Antarctica.