Nature Photography by Martin Ryer

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One of the best things about being a nature and wildlife photographer, is setting out with an idea and ending up with something completely different, unexpected or even better than what one had hoped for. On August 31st, I headed out with Nick Templeman from Campbell River Whale & Bear Excursions from the Discovery Harbour Marina, leaving the dock at about 8:30am. It didn’t take us long to find Humpback Whales. In… Read More

Less than a month later, on June 18th, I got back out on the water with Wild Waterways Adventures. I’m thinking my 2024 calendar might feature Humpback Whales? These images were created in Sutil Channel, very near the Penn Islands. My friends from Marine Education and Research Society will be helping me to ID who this Humpback was.

It has always been one of my dreams to see and photograph Great White Sharks breaching. As far as I know the best place to do this is off the coast of South Africa. I’ll get there someday. In the meantime there’s this really cool “tracker” that shows where some of these amazing fish are in real time: http://www.ocearch.org