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Stock Photo Gallery: Penguins!

Stock photography of Penguins I'm gradually revisiting my website galleries and improving them, removing images of lesser quality (unfortunately a lot of those!) and updating existing galleries with new material. If you enjoy penguins please take a look at my collection of Penguin Photos. With one exception**, all of these…

Phil CollaJuly 14, 2011

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Surfing Penguins

Last year I got to cross off one of my bucket list items: surfing penguins. I was fortunate to see surfing gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falkland Islands. After hiking around some of New Island for most of the afternoon, visiting a couple of penguin and…

Phil CollaApril 27, 2011

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Photography Expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands

I've finally gathered blog posts and select images into an informal report of my trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands in January 2010, which is available along with my other articles, reports and downloads. This trip was so much fun, and so rich in…

Phil CollaDecember 30, 2010

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En Route to South Georgia Island

En Route to South Georgia Island, Wandering albatross in flight Sunset clouds create a colorful arch, spanning the heavens from horizon to horizon, over the open sea between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island.Image ID: 24073Location: Southern Ocean It is a three day sail from the Falkland Islands to…

Phil CollaMarch 11, 2010

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Steeple Jason, West Falklands

Photos of Steeple Jason Island and Black-browed albatross, West Falklands, Falkland Islands Steeple Jason, one of the Jason group of islands, is to be our only landing today. There has been quite a bit of anticipation for this visit. It is considered one of the major landings of the trip,…

Phil CollaMarch 10, 2010

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Carcass Island, Falkland Islands

Photos of Carcass Island and

Phil CollaMarch 8, 2010

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Westpoint Island, Falkland Islands

Photos of Westpoint Island and Rockhopper Penguins, Falkland Islands Morning finds us at Westpoint Island. We can only see about 200’ up into the rolling green hills; heavy cloud cover obscures everything above that. It looks wet in the hills. Our zodiac lands on a small boat ramp, one of…

Phil CollaFebruary 23, 2010

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New Island, Falkland Islands

Photos of New Island, Falkland Islands Tall seacliffs overlook the southern Atlantic Ocean, a habitat on which albatross and penguin reside.Image ID: 23809Location: New Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Today is New Years Day, an appropos date on which to land at New Island in the Falklands, our first landing…

Phil CollaFebruary 22, 2010

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Southern Giant Petrel, Macronectes giganteus, Southern Ocean

Our trip began with a two-night crossing from Ushuaia to the Falklands. During that middle day, as we sailed north-east though the Southern Ocean, we had some good bird watching, including albatrosses, prions (tiny little rocket birds I am not qualified to photograph), small petrels and the larger and more…

Phil CollaFebruary 18, 2010

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Black-Browed Albatross at Sunset

One of the unexpected joys of the trip for me was the albatrosses. Before this trip, the only albatrosses I had seen were Waved Albatross in Galapagos (but only sitting on nests) and some distant albatrosses as we motored at sea to Guadalupe Island. Now that I have had a…

Phil CollaFebruary 4, 2010

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Photography Gear for Antarctica, South Georgia and Falklands

Recommended List of Photography Equipment for Antarctica, South Georgia and Falklands. Following is what I took on my recent trip, along with comments about how useful it was and how I will change for my next trip. Yup, I took too much, but most people do and next time I'll…

Phil CollaFebruary 3, 2010

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Cheesemans Antarctica, Falklands and South Georgia

Trip report and photos from Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island, the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands on the icebreaker M/V Polar Star with Cheesemans Ecology Safaris. I have just returned from a one-month trip during which I joined the most recent Cheesemans Ecology Safaris voyage…

Phil CollaJanuary 31, 2010

Stock Photo Gallery: Penguins!

Surfing Penguins

Photography Expedition to Antarctica, South Georgia Island and the Falkland Islands

En Route to South Georgia Island

Steeple Jason, West Falklands

Carcass Island, Falkland Islands

Westpoint Island, Falkland Islands

New Island, Falkland Islands

Southern Giant Petrel, Macronectes giganteus, Southern Ocean

Black-Browed Albatross at Sunset

Photography Gear for Antarctica, South Georgia and Falklands

Cheesemans Antarctica, Falklands and South Georgia

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