Bryant Austin prints life-sized prints of these amazing creatures. That second photo is 20-feet wide! I would absolutely love to see this in person.
I vividly remember being in a small dive boat when I was living in Australia: two humpbacks came over to investigate us. The one slowly rolled to its side and we stared in each other’s eyes (or eye, in his case) before, with a flick of his tail, he dove. To be able to swim and photograph these creatures would be a dream come true.
You can read the New York Times article here,
and see more images here.
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whoa, so cool!!
Yowza!
that look will be with you the rest of your life. as for the photos, it just so happens that my living room is 20' long… i know right were i would hang it. (i can dream, right?)
Nature at it's finest, great photographs!
Oh my gosh these photos are just amazing! I think whales are some of the most beautiful things on the earth!
I read this too and am spellbound. Any time you see a whale, it's so, so special, isn't it?
that first picture is really incredible
That last pic is mind blowing! Wow is all I can say!
so amazing, it's really mind-blowing. They're kind of mesmerising to watch, aren't they?
Alright, I'm redoing our renovation plans so that I can have a 20' uninterupted span of wall for the second photo. It would be cool broken up as a tryptic, too!
Holy Cow. These are ah-ma-zing. I would love to see these in person.
Did you see the new study that shows that whales not only sing, they learn each other's songs and sing them?
Awesome.
Amazing images. I wish the exhibit went on until we were at least in SF later in May. The NY Times article reminded me of the opening story in "Animal Minds" the only Radiolab episode that I liked. It really did hit me with force of nature: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jan/11/
Aamazing! Have you heard the Animal Minds episode of Radiolab about the grateful whale? If not, you must. It made me cry a little bit. Link: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jan/11/ The story is at 3:56
soooo cool. i love the one of the guy swimming with them. they are one amazing creature.
wow, the images are breathtaking. I can only imagine how it must feel to dive with those great animals. Stunning photography!
omgosh!! these photos are UNREAL!! I'd love to be the person swimming!!
Amazing photos…it's hard to imagine actually swimming with these in reality!