amateur category
The Old Sailor (Single)
DESCRIPTION
I took this shot photographing fur seals in Kaikoura, New Zealand. Due to the amount of tourists in this part of the country, fur seals are used to humans which means you can get much closer here than most places in the world. However they do get a little grumpy... As the weather started to turn, I took a last couple of shots as this little guy stood up presumably to take shelter in the sea. Whether he heard my shutter go, or just sensed my presence, he turned to give me a disapproving look. I loved the way his whiskers made him look like an Old English sailor ruffling his moustache towards the 'land-lubber' photographer before setting out to sea.
AUTHOR
Amateur photographer with special interests in wildlife and landscape photography. I have always been interested in photography and have been lucky enough to have travelled to many interesting parts of the world to take shots but I have never shared my work on a wider scale. Recently I have been encouraged to, and I hope that if just one person gets half as much pleasure from looking at a photo of mine as I did from taking it, I will have done something right.
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