Antarctica News

News Antarctica

International Loupe Award winners includes dramatic photo of Leopard Seal gobbling up a penguin

Amongst the recent winners of the International Loupe Awards, we were struck by this photo showing a Leopard Seal about to gobble up a penguin in Antarctica.

 
Image by Amos Nachoum

The stunning image by underwater photographer Amos Nachoum captured fifth place in the Science and Nature category of the awards. (Yes, we...

James Bond-worthy “Penguin-cam” helps BBC filmmakers create intimate documentary about penguins in Antarctica

 
 

When producers of a BBC documentary about penguins in Antarctica wanted to get up close and personal while filming these cute creatures they knew they they'd need spy technology worthy of James Bond. So, they created "Penguin Cam," a group of life-like penguins equipped with cameras, which could capture the daily world...

National Geographic photographer’s unbelievable encounter with vicious predator in Antarctica (VIDEO)

 
 

We've posted quite a few amazing underwater photography videos here before but this story might be the most unbelievable yet.

In the clip (embedded below), National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen talks about his encounter with one of Antartica's most vicious predators, the Leopard Seal.

On assignment in the...

Beyond ‘Endurance’: The life of ‘Mad’ Frank Hurley, Australian photographer

 
 

"Hurley is a warrior with his camera, and would go anywhere or do anything to get a picture."
-- Lionel Greenstreet, First Officer of the Expedition Ship Endurance.
 
"Mad" Frank Hurley was a photographer who by any measure was bigger than life. Compared to him, Mad Max was just an out-of-work traffic cop in a bad...