It remains beautiful: dolphins around the boat. Photographing them is often not easy. Because they pop up suddenly, in unexpected places, and before you have focused your camera, they have disappeared underwater again.
But we were lucky. The sea was flat and the sun was shining brightly. This allowed me to see, and follow, and print the dolphins underwater as soon as they surfaced.
The species in the photo is the Common dolphin. The photo was taken in the Little Minch, the strait between the Inner and Outer Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland. Originally, the Common dolphin was rarely, if at all, found here, but due to warming sea water, sightings are becoming more and more northern, and thus more frequent in the Hebrides.
Joep is a (professional) nature and landscape explorer and in his spare time, besides being an active photographer, an enthusiastic sea sailor and curious traveller. His photos reflect all that... Read more…