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  • Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, off Antarctica, is one of the first places visitors stop after spending days in the drake passage.  I tried to capture what it felt like to arrive at Antarctica for the first time with this shot from there, with the snow on the ground, blowing snow in the air, snow-covered, mountains in the background, and a chinstrap penguin amidst it all.
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  • Part of what makes penguins so compelling is the entertaining poses they strike while on land.  These three gentoo penguins in Mikkelsen Harbor in Antarctica look like they're gleefully running up the hill, and you can't help but smile and wonder what's going on in their heads.
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  • Off Astrolabe Island in Antarctica, there are what appear to be many small pieces of ice, floating in the water and echoing the shape of the mountains.  But looking below the surface, you realize how much is unseen.
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  • A lone adélie penguin sits on an iceberg near Useful Island, Antarctica.  Because it's so early in the season, the water is quite clear, and the ice below the surface turns the water aqua.
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  • Antarctica is full of extreme weather conditions and can change in a second.  On a blue-sky day with harsh sunlight, the wind suddenly picked up, becoming extremely strong and making it hard to walk.  But through it all, this little chinstrap penguin on Half Moon Island just keeps going.
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  • The dark and gloomy clouds above Useful Island, Antarctica kept making it feel like it should snow, but no snowflakes ever fell.  By getting low and shooting through a snowbank, I was able to make it look like these gentoo penguins running across a distant hill were walking through blowing snow, capturing the feeling of the day.
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  • A weddell seal scratches its head after waking up from a nap on the ice at Astrolabe Island, Antarctica.
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  • A weddell seal peeks out from behind the ice, looking at the human visitors, near Astrolabe Island, Antarctica.
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  • It's common to stop at Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands when first arriving in Antarctica.  Setting foot on land after days at sea was quite nice, and it felt like these chinstrap penguins were calling out to say hello.
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  • Cruising through the icebergs off Danco Island, Antarctica, you'd periodically see snowy "windows," framing the shore behind.  After spotting one particularly pretty window, I was lucky enough to see a gentoo penguin walk through it, struggling to keep his balance on the icy snow.
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  • It's rare to see Antarctic shags (cormorants) sitting on ice, as it only happens early in the spring.  It's also rare to have clear enough water to see beneath an iceberg.  I was fortunate enough to encounter both and to be photographing right as the birds began to take off on this dark and stormy day.
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  • On land, penguins come across as awkward and funny with their waddling walk.  But in the water, they're graceful and amazing.  On Cuverville island, there were only a few penguins on shore.  And if you just looked at the water, it seemed like nothing was happening.  But looking below the surface revealed hundreds of gentoo penguins, swimming around, waiting for the first one to leave the water and walk onto land.
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  • While sailing towards the Antarctic pensinula one morning, we were lucky enough to wake up at 3am to not only an amazing sky but an iceberg with chinstrap penguins, too.  One by one, the penguins dove into the water to go hunting.
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  • Gourdin Island is in the Antarctic peninsula, where climate change is having an impact.  It's somewhat ironic seeing this adélie penguin on an iceberg waving goodbye, as both will be affected by the changing weather.
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  • We don't appreciate penguins enough.  While we think of them as silly and awkward on land, they survive harsh weather conditions and fight for survival daily.  When the wind picked up and the snow started blowing almost painfully, I tried to capture a sense of what this chinstrap penguin on Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands deals with daily.
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  • It's rare to see Antarctic shags (cormorants) sitting on ice, as it only happens early in the spring.  It's also rare to have clear enough water to see completely beneath an iceberg.  I was fortunate enough to encounter both and to be photographing right as the birds began to take off on this dark and stormy day.
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