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Sebastiao Salgado

This is a very familar sight to me during the winter months when I'm staying at the weekender, and I walk along the cliff tops at Victor Harbor with the poodles on the edge of the southern ocean in the late afternoon.

Sebastiao Salgado, Among Giants, The Genesis series

Alas, it is a sight we take for granted.

Salgadao's photos of the southern right whale were taken off the Patagonian coast of Argentina. I've never seen the southern right, which weighs over 40 tonnes, "leaping towards the sky and then splashing massively back into the water with a deafening sound that can be heard several kilometres away."

And:

Maybe one day we will see the southern right whales leaping skyward.

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at May 8, 2005 11:29 AM | TrackBack