Crowned Elephant Seal
Etienne Pauthenet
Meteorology Department (MISU) Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
This female elephant seal is wearing a device recording unique oceanographic data in the remote Southern Ocean (temperature, salinity, fluorimetry and depth combined with a geolocalisation Argos system). The tag was attached before her post-breeding trip at sea, 4 months previously. It was 7 in the morning when I took this shot, she was just back on land and we were preparing our material to retrieve the tag. A Great Albatross is flying in the background.
Shot with a Canon 7D mark II ,24-105mm Canon lens, 105mm focal length, f/4, 1/640s, and ISO 100.
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Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
8.1 MB
Aspect
3:2
Width
5472 px
Height
3648 px
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 7D mark II
Software
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5
Coordinates
-49.4238, 70.4015
Tint
Grayish olive
Submitted
15 January 2018
Taken
4 January 2017
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