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Paul Nicklen’s leopard seal story, Antarctica

Posted: 15 November 2009 03:53 PM
Last Update: 15 November 2009 03:58 PM
13 comment(s)
Categories: News,  Environment
Author: Eric Cheng ( echeng )
This Article's URL: http://wetpixel.com/i.php/full/paul-nicklens-leopard-seal-story-antarctica/

Check out this short video interview of Paul Nicklen, who describes a four-day encounter with a large leopard seal in Antarctica. A leopard seal befriends Paul and presents penguins to him, presumably trying to feed what it thinks is a truly incompetent predator. The story is an incredible one—truly the once-in-a-lifetime encounter that every serious wildlife photographer hopes to have one day.

13 Comment(s):

  1. Incredible; and his images are stunning!

    Posted by loftus  on  11/15  at  05:10 PM

  2. Fantastic multimedia storytelling!

    Posted by Mary Lynn  on  11/15  at  07:42 PM

  3. Just amazing. Thanks for sharing.

    Posted by BotSO  on  11/15  at  08:18 PM

  4. Incredible

    Posted by Alexis  on  11/15  at  11:07 PM

  5. Paul was very gracious, passionate, and engaging in my interview with him also, printed in the new Alert Diver. 

    See http://alertdiver.com/articles.aspx?articleno=203

    Posted by StephenFrink  on  11/16  at  04:41 AM

  6. Superb images. What a predator!

    Posted by Gutted  on  11/16  at  10:19 AM

  7. what a capture. I would be scared of the cold water !!!

    Stew

    Posted by stewsmith  on  11/16  at  10:52 AM

  8. Very inspiring and an amazing encounter.

    Posted by randapex  on  11/16  at  10:59 AM

  9. Paul’s whole book is stunning - the best polar photography I’ve ever seen, and incredible value value for money given it’s size and quality (under £20 in the UK)

    Posted by Steve Jones  on  11/16  at  11:05 AM

  10. What a fantastic story with amazing images! Congratualtions Paul! :-)

    Best regards from Kim Meineche! :-)

    Posted by Kimmeineche  on  11/16  at  12:24 PM

  11. Sold me on the book, his images are spectacular and this encounter/interview was just great - thanks for posting!

    Posted by Stephen H.  on  11/16  at  01:34 PM

  12. Makes me immediately wanna go there. I hope we will see leopard seals at the Wetpixel Antarctica expedition 2011

    Posted by Andrej Belic  on  11/17  at  01:46 AM

  13. Amazing!

    Posted by Adam Hanlon  on  11/18  at  01:21 AM

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