Wildlife

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.

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

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

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 curious king penguin inspects its reflection in my fisheye lens at a colony at Gold Harbour, South Georgia.

A lone gentoo penguin crests a ridge on Cuverville Island, Antarctica.

An antarctic tern fishes in an iceberg graveyard at Cuverville island as a figure in red hikes in the distance.