Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year 2004. The picture above was taken on a winter day like this in the first week of January. Well, actually it was Summer (austral). I was at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica with a research team. We used to see the seals all the time sunbathing at a distance on the ice. This wedell seal was about 150-200 ft from us when I took this picture with a 500mm mirror lens coupled with a 2X teleconverter.

You can click on the picture to see a larger image in a pop-up window. Here are the links to the photopages of the past weeks : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 . Visit the Most Recent Photo Page.