Marine Wildlife Photography... AKA ORCAS!

I was very lucky this season to be brought on with Prince of Whales (http://www.princeofwhales.com/) as their third photographer. It is an amazing experience to get to go out on the water and get to see these majestic animals in their natural habitat - a far cry from their cramped lives in aquariums, surrounded by glass and concrete walls!

As a photographer for Prince of Whales, I provide photos to be published on their blog and other forms of social media, in order to show prospective clients just how awesome a trip out into our local waters can be! 

Here are a few of my favourite photos from this season - so far.

Please note:  Most of the images are shot with a 400 mm telephoto lens. Because of our restrictions around wildlife (100+ meters), we use powerful lenses to better share orca activity that passengers see on their trips. Keep in mind this also heavily compresses space between objects. We also crop images for best blog viewing.

Male from K pod, A resident group of orcas

Members of a transient group engaging in surface behaviours

Transient orcas making a close pass of our boat. We were sitting with out engines off, because to turn them on in order to manouver away, only would have disturbed the orcas more. They chose to approach us at this distance (And I was using a telephoto lens to this shot looks SUPER close!)

Members of K Pod in Boundary Pass with Mt. Baker in the background.

A young member of K pod.