Emperor Penguin Family
Uploaded: January 27, 2008 14:22:37
Exif: F Number: 11, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 3125/1000000 seconds, Flash: did not fire., ISO: 100, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 200.00 mm, Model: NIKON D200
Kathleen Rinker January 27, 2008
Great capture Peter, so cute!!! #840288Karen Walzer January 27, 2008
Adorable! Surely a winner! #5404740Matt Quaid January 27, 2008
wow, what a great shot Peter, awesome #5404773Robert G. Stalnaker January 27, 2008
Peter, what is the story, the place etc behind this beautiful shot? #5405447Tamera S. Phillips January 27, 2008
Adorable Peter. I too would be interested in further information on the story behind it. #5405599Kay E. Mahoney January 27, 2008
Nice capture, Peter. They are beautiful. #5405610Tammy Espino January 27, 2008
Georgeous capture! :) #5405664Pat Gamwell January 28, 2008
This is definitely the Animal Category winner for the month! SUPERB clarity! #5406514Brett Dolsen January 28, 2008
Awesome Peter you have photographed what the majority of us will never see!!Anne M. Young January 28, 2008
Little Feet! Great capture #5407292Peter Frith January 28, 2008
Thank you all for the kind comments. As one camera ad says "timing is everything"! This was taken in Oct '07 at the recently discovered (2004) emperor penguin colony on Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea east of the Antarctic Peninsula. Amazing to think that with our current technology such a latge colony (2500 pairs or so) could remain completely unknown for so long. A testament to the size and remoteness of Antarctica.Peter #5408209
Lisa R. Buffington January 28, 2008
Awesome capture! I love it! Excellent clarity and your timing was perfect. A winner! Great work. #5408959Melissa Papaj February 06, 2008
Wow! Definitely a winner. Congrats! #5452173Louise Souchereau February 07, 2008
Gorgeous capture, this is such a great picture, exceptional clarity and colors, bravo and I agree this is a Winner #5461533Toni Riggs February 17, 2008
WOW!!!!! This is such a cute picture. How long were you in Antartica for? Congrats on your well deserved POTD! #5505261Yves Rubin February 17, 2008
It's hard not to fall in love with this picture, it is outstanding and so touching. You are so lucky to have made it down there Kathleen! #5505272Dominick M. Dimacale February 17, 2008
Congratulations Peter on your POTD and a sure Winner later on this Month!!!!Dominick #5505273
Donna La Mattino Pagakis February 17, 2008
Excellent wildlife capture Peter, congratulations on your potd! #5505293Jim Britt February 17, 2008
Nice detail on this one. Congrats on your POTD. #5505295Les Rhoades February 17, 2008
Congratulations on the POTD! #5505299Michael S. Lazarus February 17, 2008
Incredible shot Peter. Congrats on the POD!!!!!!Mary K. Robison February 17, 2008
Congratulations on your superb POTD, Peter! #5505318Susie Peek-Swint February 17, 2008
Wonderful capture Peter ~ must have been even more wonderful to be there and witness such a scene .. many congrats on POTD ~ a winner! #5505345Bill Houghton February 17, 2008
Great shot Peter. Congratulations on your POTD. BillCheck out my personal website at:
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Jessica Jenney February 17, 2008
Congratulations, Peter on this stunning capture and POTD! #5505487Michelle Alton February 17, 2008
Hearty congratulations on this capture, Peter. It's absolutely heart warming and thoroughly deserves POTD!Michelle #5505491
Michael Umbreit February 17, 2008
Peter - Excellent capture!! Congratulations on your POTD! - Mike #5505619Jennifer L. Alder February 17, 2008
OH WOW! What an incredible image, Peter. Love everything about this one... big congrats on your POTD!! :) #5505643Evy Johansen February 17, 2008
Wow.. Adorable image and wonderful captured, Peter!! BIG congratulations on your POTD!! #5505707Anna Diederich February 17, 2008
what a fabulous shot, Peter! Congrats on your POTD! #5505734Laurie Daily February 17, 2008
WoW...fabulous portrait...congratulations on your POTD, Peter. Sure would love to know the where as well! #5505769Joy Rector February 17, 2008
coangrats on the awesome POTD #5505784Kathleen K. Parker February 17, 2008
Wonderful!! Congrats on the POTD, Peter!Robert Baer February 17, 2008
congrats on the potd for this awesome image peter! #5505899Kathy L. Clark February 17, 2008
Peter what a wonderful capture. Congrats on your fabulous POTD. #5505912Cathy Barrows February 17, 2008
Congrats on your POTD...this is so sweet and such an amaing op for you #5505918Deborah Lewinson February 17, 2008
Hearty congrats on this marvelous POTD, Peter, awesome capture!!!Nikki McDonald February 17, 2008
What an amazing and wonderful capture. Congratulations on this POTD--certainly expect to see it again! #5505993Linda D. Lester February 17, 2008
WOW! What a shot! How awesome it had to be to see this. Congratulations on your POTD! #5506009Jean-Pierre Ducondi February 17, 2008
Congratulations on this amazing capture and well deserved POTD.Wendy Stevenson February 17, 2008
What a sweet and tender moment you've captured perfectly Peter! Big congrats on your well deserved POTD!! Beautiful!!! #5506072Josselyne Klecanda February 17, 2008
WOW! what a great shot. Congrats #5506099Mary E. Lake February 17, 2008
What an adorable capture!!! Congrats on the photo of the day!!! Mary :-) #5506199Danielle Fuller February 17, 2008
Peter, congrats on your POTD!!! Well done! #5506206RC Fritz February 17, 2008
Congratulations on your POTD!! #5506242Heather Goldman February 17, 2008
...just lovely.Lori Carlson February 17, 2008
Oh Peter, this is priceless! I have such affection for penguins! Thank you for sharing and congrats on your honors! :0) #5506528Lisa J. Boulden February 17, 2008
This just couldn't get ANY cuter!!!Lorri Shane February 17, 2008
What a great photo! The "expression" on the baby's face is priceless. A BIG WINNER in my book! Congrats!Patricia A. Stalter February 17, 2008
There is nothing I can add to all the comments that hasn't been said, but WOW. Fantastic!!! #5506725Christian Rosito February 17, 2008
Beautiful Peter, Congratulations on your POTD! #5506977Christy B. Anderson February 17, 2008
Excellent Peter! Congrats on POTD! #5506996Philippe Vieux-Jeanton February 17, 2008
Fantastic shot, Peter! Congrats!! #5507016Cesar J. La Rosa February 17, 2008
This portrait is just amazing, Peter!!! It's perfect in every way. BEAUTIFUL!!! Congratulations on your well-deserved POTD!!!Linda M. Mishler February 17, 2008
What beauty in relationship is shown here Peter!! I absolutely love it!!=)The expression of the baby penguin is priceless! #5507496Patricia A. Casey February 17, 2008
Wonderful Photo, and wonderful gallery,Peter....Congratulations!Colleen Farrell February 17, 2008
Fantastic capture, congrats on your POTD! #5507712Mary Clarke February 17, 2008
Wonderful image Peter and congratulations on POTD #5507772Nancy Donnell February 17, 2008
What a fantastic nature telling story. Such tenderness! Congratulations to you. #5508192Donna R. Wageman February 17, 2008
This is something else, just precious!Jean E. Hildebrant February 17, 2008
Wonderfully caputured! Looks just like the little guy on "Happy Feet"! Congrat's to you! #5508366Vickie Burt February 17, 2008
What a special moment, perfectly captured for us all to enjoy!Laura L. Gonzales February 17, 2008
Wow Peter! Wonderful capture. Congrats on your POTD!! Looks like a winner! Laura #5508529Kathleen R. Struckle February 17, 2008
Totally awesome capture. Congrats on POTD!! #5509129Shawn Jennings February 17, 2008
Fantastic image, Peter! Congratulations on your POTD! #5509266Pradeep K. Kaushik February 17, 2008
Magnificent moment captured Peter!!Congrats on your POTD!! #5509272Susan M. Smith February 18, 2008
Peter, absolutely wonderful capture and so touching as well! Definately going into my fav's! Congrats on a well-deserved POTD :) #5510910Milan Banik February 18, 2008
great mother and childSherran Andersen February 18, 2008
I agree with the previous responses.... a lovely, touching photo. A capture that every photographer dreams of. Congrats on POTD! Sherran #5512931Cheryl Meisel February 20, 2008
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh an adorable shot!!!Nancylee Malm February 21, 2008
Such emotion in the image and emotion by the viewer. Happiness! #5528575Linda D. Lester February 22, 2008
I think this is the winner! Congratulations! #5533335Nikki McDonald February 22, 2008
And now a finalist. Congratulations and a very fervent MAY THIS GO ON. #5533681Donna R. Wageman February 22, 2008
Great, great, great - this image has to win, so stupendous in every way.Kay E. Mahoney February 22, 2008
Congratulations on your adorable finalist.Hope to see this in the winners. #5535423Sharon King February 22, 2008
This has to be a winning shot! I just love it! Congrats! #5536035Matt Quaid February 22, 2008
I think your the winner #5536207Flavio Carnevale February 24, 2008
Congrats on this great finalist.Elida Gutierrez February 26, 2008
Congratulations on your Win!!!!Trophy:
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGallDetail.php?photoID=5690310 #5555992
Claudia Kuhn February 26, 2008
So sweet, wonderful capture, congratulations on your win! #5556716anonymous February 26, 2008
Congratulations Peter on your wonderful, well deserved win! B- #5556763Flavio Carnevale February 26, 2008
Congrats!Nadya Johnson February 26, 2008
Congratulations on your absolutely awesome winner, Peter! #5556980Anne M. Young February 26, 2008
Fantastic heart warming shot - congratulations #5557114Donna R. Wageman February 26, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS on 2nd place! #5557177Kay E. Mahoney February 26, 2008
Congratulations on your second place winner, Peter. #5557290Susana Ms Heide February 26, 2008
This one pulls at the heart strings!!! The nurturing care is so beautifully captured! CONGRATULATIONS Peter!!! #5559002Kristi A. Howson February 27, 2008
Congratulations on this wonderful Winner Peter!!! So elegant! #5561898Vickie Burt February 27, 2008
CONGRATULATIONS on this stunning winner Peter!!! #5563287Patrick Rouzes February 27, 2008
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS on this INCREDIBLE winner,Peter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #5564279Laurie Daily February 28, 2008
Congratulations on this fabulous winner, Peter! #5568393Donna La Mattino Pagakis February 28, 2008
Outstanding Peter!! Congratulations on your win! #5569900Jane M February 29, 2008
Fantastic capture. A real favorite with me and my kids! Congrats! #5573905Dominick M. Dimacale March 02, 2008
Congratulations Peter on your Win.Dominick #5583855
Robert G. Stalnaker March 15, 2008
Peter, in my humble opinion, and in my "winner's choices", this was the Grand Prize Winner. I want to give due credit to the 1st place winners and Grand Prize winner, but I am a bit shocked that this was not #1.This is a world class photo that easily could appear in natioanl or international premier magazines.
In a thread about how wildlife photography seems to get shortchanged here at BP, and one member equated wildlife photography as "lucky snapshots", I stated the following:
"Peter Firth's "Emperor Penguin Family" won 2nd Place last month in the free contest, a photo he shot in Antarctica. With all due respect to the 1st Place winners and Grand Prize winner, I will continue to offer comments and suggestions so that incredible wildlife photos like Peter's get the respect that they deserve."
The link to this thread is here:
http://www.betterphoto.com/forms/qnaDetail.php?threadID=31802
Instructor Richard Lynch posted responses, and he responded to the member who equated wildlife photos to "lucky snapshots".
I think all wildlife photographers would be interested in reading that thread. The entire thread. #5647118
Niels Sandal March 23, 2008
Congratulations on your well derserved winner. Great deails on the penguins and great expressions on the penguins. #5684378Lars Nitteberg March 24, 2008
Allow me to take my hat off for this shot! This is so amazing to look at!! Can't imagine how it must have felt to get this. The level of details are incredible. truely a great capture...Congrats! #5689942Alex T. Mizuno March 26, 2008
This is an outstanding photo Peter! Full of feeling and such clarity! Congratulations on your winning in BP and winning a place in National Geographic's Daily Dozen Contest! I see your photo in the week 4 of the National Geographic Contest. I got my place in week 3. #5702283Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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