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Penguins in the mist

March 10, 2022 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3918: I photographed this gentoo penguin mother and chick on a foggy day, on a tiny island, just off the coast of Antarctica.

Antarctica photobomb

January 29, 2022 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3880: This photo cracks me up. I spent several minutes crawling through penguin guano to get in just the right position to photograph this gentoo penguin mother and chick. Then, just as I push the shutter button, a south polar skua photobombs! (Photographed on Antarctica)

Feeding time!

June 15, 2021 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3636: A gentoo penguin chick tries to convince mom (or dad) that it’s feeding time. Photographed on a small island off the coast of Antarctica.

Gentoo and chinstrap penguins

June 4, 2021 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3625: I have been out all day, so I’m late posting. And when I am late, I often reach into my stash of penguin photos. This shot (taken off the cost of Antarctica) shows both chinstrap and gentoo penguins.

Gentoo close-up

February 2, 2021 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3507: This is one of my favorite photos from my Antarctica trip. We had strict rules that we could not approach any animal closer than 15 feet. But if an animal approached us? That was okay. The man in my photo is Paul Jacobson, who was filming a documentary of […]

Gentoo penguin family

January 14, 2021 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3490: A gentoo penguin family on a foggy day, off the coast of Antarctica.

Penguins and elephant seals

November 16, 2020 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3432: Female elephant seals and gentoo penguins, photographed on a foggy day, on a tiny island, off the coast of Antarctica.

Gentoo penguin research

August 2, 2020 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3328: When Deb and I traveled to Antarctica, we stopped at a research station. In this photo from that stop, a gentoo penguin is hard at work, researching whether are not Deb’s nylon pants are edible.

Follow me!

April 9, 2020 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3216: “Okay, everyone. Follow me!” (Gentoo penguin chicks, photographed just off the coast of Antarctica.)

Penguin before and after

November 20, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3078: Marty: “Ya know. It would be really cool if you guys could stand together, so I could show people a before-and-after picture of gentoo penguins molting.” Penguins: “How’s this?”

Gentoo penguin chicks

November 9, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3067: Since I’m in New York all week, presenting Around the World in 90 Minutes at colleges, all my pictures this week will be from that show. These are gentoo penguin chicks, photographed on Antarctica.

Penguin scenic

November 7, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3065: Since I’m in New York all week, presenting Around the World in 90 Minutes at colleges, all my pictures this week will be from that show. Today we have a gentoo penguin mother and chick, photographed along the coast of Antarctica.

A penguin parable

September 10, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #3007: To the average person this is just a group of penguins. So let me—an expert in penguin politics—interpret this photo for you, which I smuggled in from a Russian research facility on Antarctica: There are both Adélie and gentoo penguins in this image. For years the gentoos have had […]

The curious chick

August 14, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2980: We had a strict rule on our Antarctica expedition: we could not approach any animal closer than fifteen feet. The animals, on the other hand, didn’t have such rules, and they could approach us as close as they wanted to. In this photo, a curious gentoo penguin chick has […]

Penguins say Happy Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and LGBTQ Pride Month

June 16, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2923: Happy Father’s Day! One thing about penguins is that you can’t easily tell their sex by looks or behavior. Is this really a daddy penguin feeding his chick? Or is it a mommy penguin feeding her chick? I could use this same photo to wish people a Happy Mother’s […]

Waiting for mom

April 13, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2861: A gentoo penguin chick watches the ocean, waiting for mom or dad to come home. (Photographed on an island off the coast of Antarctica)

When are you going to feed me?

February 22, 2019 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2812: Today’s photo is dedicated to all the human parents out there with fully grown children who just won’t move out of the house. It could be worse. You could be a gentoo penguin parent, who has to risk its life at sea, only to come ashore and regurgitate its […]

Antarctica scenic with photobomb

November 4, 2018 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2706: Here’s a nice scenic photo, I took on an Antarctica island. The gentoo penguins cooperated nicely for this shot. A south polar skua provides the photobomb.

A bird’s gotta eat

September 19, 2018 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2661: I climbed up a rocky hill on an Antarctica island to take this photo. This is a south polar skua, looking down on a gentoo penguin colony. What the skua intends to do isn’t pleasant from a human or penguin point of view. But hey, a bird’s gotta eat.

You are the best mom . . .

November 1, 2017 Written by Marty Essen

Marty’s photo of the day #2353: “You are always there to protect me on the coldest nights and in the thickest fog. You are the best mom in all of Antarctica!”