Stewart Cook

PHOTOS: Wildlife

Sea otter in Alaska
   
Eagle, Alaska
   
A Beater seal swims on the surface
     
  
The nursery pool. An amzing scene of seals learning to swim in a shallow pool
  
Learning to swim
   
A very young and shy white coat, maybe a day or so old
     
  
A young white coat
   
A poor ice year when many seals drowned due to lack of solid ice
   
A small pan of ice barely big enough to support the seal
     
  
This beautiful harp was killed moments later
   
'One of my saddest day's on the ice'
   
A curious beater
     
  
Snowy rest
  
A ragged jacket
   
A mother sniffs out her pup
     
  
An open mouth yelling at me
   
Beater portrait
   
A beater emerges from the fridged waters
     
  
Beater suns his belly
   
The cheesy grin seal
   
A very young white coat white placenta blood stained neck
     
  
Ragged jacket with pressure ridges behind
   
A ragged jacket harp seal still losing it's white fur
   
A snowy rest hole
     
  
A beautiful Beater pup
   
A white coat struggles to get back onto the ice
   
Migrating adults. Shot from the helicopter as we travelled to the hunt. Many adults swim upside down to watch for sharks or whales that can attack from below
     
  
Snow Angeles, track left by a seals flippers
   
Big flippers make for good swimmers
   
A white coat on a small pan of ice
     
  
A wide angle shot of a beater. 'Some will let you get very close'
   
Underwater shoot with humpbacks in Dominican Republic. The most amazing encounter.
   
Humpack roll
     
  
Humpback with calf
   
Sleeping humpback
   
Whale Tail
     
  
Humpback dive
   
Humpack
   
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
Alaska
   
     
  
   
A Fin Whale shot in The Bay of Fundy at sunset
   
Elephant in Thailand
     
  
Angry baboon
   
Tourist rubbish