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Molting Young Southern Elephant Seals
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Elephant Seals are huge, rather phlegmatic and harmless creatures. Most wildlife photographers are coming to Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic regions to see and photograph penguins. I also mostly had penguins and albatrosses in mind while preparing for my first South Georgia Island expedition. But from the moment my foot stepped ashore I was fascinated with Elephant Seals and they became my #1 subject in Antarctic. It is entirely surreal to observe and photograph these humongous, phlegmatic and strange creatures often surrounded by busy little penguins...
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Yankee Harbour, Greenwich Island, Shetland Islands, Antarctic

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