Banks Peninsula - a beautiful place on earth 🇳🇿 / Meeting penguins in the wilderness
Banks Peninsula - New Zealand
I just want to share some shots from our trip to Banks Peninsula. We arrived in Christchurch from Hongkong and actually haven't planned anything for the next day. Our host suggested to go to the Peninsula and go whale watching. Actually the weather wasn't supposed to be good so they canceled the whale watching trip. We talked to a lady at the tourist information and she recommended the "penguin tour". I was uncertain if a "penguin" day tour is the thing I wanted to do but it turned out great.
A lovely family is taking care of the little penguins. They mainly protect them from predators and raise new borns if needed. We saw a lot of the little blue ones and one yellow-eyed penguin.
With us was a professional photographer from the US, who was shooting like a machine gun with his pro body and lenses. Too bad I just had a 500D and a 70-300mm. But I think the images turned our alright 😜
The first image just won a contest by @czechglobalhosts and the second shot shows the Akaroa harbour. Followed by a penguin hut, a new born penguin and two images of the yellow-eyed penguin. Actually you are not allowed to come closer than a couple meters to the penguin because it's so rare and protected. We left the trail and walked around him 😂
I hope you enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think.
Photos by @justdentist
Canon 500D
Post in Lightroom 3
Sebastian
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Looks like they are used to people. They aren't scared at all.
I have 500d also :)
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STOPHello! I would like to say huge congratulations to you for winning North American Friday comptetition in my 7 World's Continents Photo Challenge. Your pictures are absolutely stunning and I am sure they won't go unnoticed. Great job. Kindly see if you can answer some congratulations notes in my post once they start pouring in sometimes throughout the day. Thanks ever so much. Tomas
7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge – North American Friday – winner announcement!
Thanks a lot Tomas:)