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Someone loves me...

by Stephen Kaluski

Gallery: Regional: UKNPPosted December 29, 201092 views3 comments
One from a (pod or herd) of Walruses that came to investigate, then play along the shore whilst we were photographing the adult males. They were incredibly curious, venturing out of the water on occasions, lunging forth, but still keeping their distance, about 1m. They stayed for about an hour until we departed in the two zodiacs.

Converted to B/W as the light was not great, but I think this has more 'atmosphere'. This one was a juvenile, as the tusks haven't really formed and their size was about half of a fully grown male.

Steve
MKIII 70-200f/2.8 1/640 f/5.6 ISO400 HH, slight crop

Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by eric weight on December 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Bags of detail there Steve and suits B&W really well.
:wavey: :toast: eric
Registered on December 4, 2007, 10 Posts, 70 Comments
Comment posted by Mark Davies on December 30, 2010 at 7:18 AM
Great conversion , tone down the brighter top perhaps ?
Registered on February 3, 2009, 21 Posts, 327 Comments
Comment posted by Ian Mason on December 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM
That's an impressive moustache! I'd love to see a very tight crop on this, excluding the water altogether.
Registered on December 14, 2005, 399 Posts, 2305 Comments