Peek a Boo! Emperor penguin chick peers out of the brood pouch - Snow Hill island, Antarctica

Image from recent expedition to Antarctica aboard the Kapitan Khlebnikov. Quark Expeditions.
Difficult conditions this day with cold, windy and some snow.
Sony A7R3, 100-400 with 1.4x at 560mm, 1/1250 @f/11, iso 640.
An incredible trip with chicks in the pouch an added bonus.
Mike

Interesting habitat image. I like the feeling of the intense cold that the image gives. The image is a little too busy for my taste and the chick looks a little soft. I appreciate that the image was shot under difficult conditions. Well done for being there and getting the image.

hope you had a great trip. Nice seeing the chick under the feet. The blacks look pretty dark especially on the heads.

the mom with juvenile is priceless but I agree it was a bit crowded and I am not seeing the details that Artie's image had. Still I'd be happy with a frame of the emperor penguin

TFS

H Mike, Ditto the comments above. Was this from the first Quark trip this year on the KK?

with love, artie

Hi Artie,
Yes, we were on the first trip on the KK. I have built most of the galleries on my website. This time I put some GoPro videos (each between 1 and 2 minutes in length) in a gallery to help explain the adventure. They are in "Trip Videos" The colony experiences are in "Days 6-9" We had a similar experience to yours in that it took an extra day for the Khlebnikov to get within helicopter distance (in our case 7 miles) and we had to leave a day early, but in our case it was a life threatening injury to one of the passengers. The result was three days at the colony. Such are expeditions. Helicopter operations 2 gives the best perspective of where the colony was relative to the ship and base camp.
Images with a lot of detail are in the day three images as that was the day we had the best light.
Hope you enjoy: https://www.mojphoto.com/f339714510

Mike

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Originally Posted by mikeojohnson

Hi Artie,
Yes, we were on the first trip on the KK. I have built most of the galleries on my website. This time I put some GoPro videos (each between 1 and 2 minutes in length) in a gallery to help explain the adventure. They are in "Trip Videos" The colony experiences are in "Days 6-9" We had a similar experience to yours in that it took an extra day for the Khlebnikov to get within helicopter distance (in our case 7 miles) and we had to leave a day early, but in our case it was a life threatening injury to one of the passengers. The result was three days at the colony. Such are expeditions. Helicopter operations 2 gives the best perspective of where the colony was relative to the ship and base camp.
Images with a lot of detail are in the day three images as that was the day we had the best light.
Hope you enjoy: https://www.mojphoto.com/f339714510

Mike

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Thanks for the link. We had three days there too :) Is there a way to pause the videos so that they can load and then run smoothly? I have a lousy connection at my home in Indian Lake Estates, FL ...

with love, arite

When you click on the video to play a bar opens at the bottom with a play/pause button. Might help to pause it to give the video time to load.
mike

Thanks. I figgered it out :)

with love, artie

A wonderful experience documented. I agree with earlier comments about being busy, but as David Cowling said, congratulations for just getting there. Thanks for sharing.