Orca Art

Female Orca and calf surfacing - photographed in 2006 in the Great Bear Rainforest of northern BC. We had good enough light (strong backlighting with heavily shaded forest background) to get the creative juices flowing!

I feel privileged and honoured that Creative Nature Photography declared this as the "Image of the Year" for 2008/2009 (they're off a normal calendar year with their awards).

Subject: Female Orca (Orcinus orca) and calf surfacing and blowing
Location: Northern BC Coast (Great Bear Rainforest), Canada
Camera: Nikon D2x
Lens: Nikkor 300 mm f2.8 VR lens - handheld. VR on and in "Normal" mode.
Exposure: 1/1250s at f2.8. ISO 100. -2.33 stop compensation from matrix metered exposure.
Crop: Almost none - this is over 95% of full frame

All the contextual information surrounding this shot (field notes, all camera settings and processing details, conservation, etc.) can be found at:

http://www.naturalart.ca/galleries/mammals/other/.

Comments and feedback greatly appreciated...probably better to view larger version prior to doing so...

Cheers...

Brad