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ELITE ADVENTURE A group of Adelie penguins ready to feed in the Southern Ocean. A gentoo penguin.ship’s corridors.During the two-day crossing, a few of us passengers who werephotographers took up positions at the rear of the ship taking photo- graphs of the coveys of seabirds that followed the ship in search of food brought to the surface by the spinning of the ship’s propellers. It was a real challenge and a lot of fun steadying ourselves as the ship rolled through the waves and we aimed cameras with long and heavy zoom lenses at the flying birds.I was delighted to have the opportunity to photograph those seabirds, some of which are threatened species, as I was working on my next hardback coffee-table book called Wildlife: In Search of Threatened Species. Among the seabirds I was able to capture through my lenses were black-browed albatrosses, an endangered species with a body length of 88 cm and a wingspan of 240 cm, and wandering albatrosses, a vulnerable species with a large body length of 110-135 cm and a wingspan of 305-355 cm, and also southern giant petrels, with their body length of 87 cm and wingspan of 195 cm, and cape petrels that have a much smaller size of 35-41 cm and a wingspan of 81-91 cm with attractive wing patterns.36 Elite+The ship ceased rolling as we approached the Antarctic
