May 30, 2025
Raccoon (Procyon lotor) standing up investigating camera, portrait, Stanley park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Cananda, September.
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Raccoon (Procyon lotor) standing up investigating camera, portrait, Stanley park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Cananda, September.
Bertie Gregory
Photo by @bertiegregory | A three-month-old polar bear cub stretches at sunset while tucked into its mother in Manitoba, Canada.
Ice Edge Journey
Bertie Gregory (United Kingdom)
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff to take their first swim in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Photographer Bertie Gregory used his drone's powerful zoom lens to maintain distance from the captivating scene.
Photograph byBertie Gregory
Whales making waves
Bertie Gregory tracks a pod of orcas as they prepare to ‘wave wash’ a Weddell seal. Bertie took two month-long expeditions searching for orcas. ‘We spent every waking minute on the roof of the boat, scanning,’ he says. After battling high winds and freezing conditions, he captured this remarkable behaviour with his drone. These orcas belong to a group that specialises in hunting seals by charging towards the ice, creating a wave that washes the seal into the water. With rising temperatures melting ice floes, seals are spending more time on land, and the behaviour of ‘wave washing’ may disappear.
Location: Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Photograph: Bertie Gregory, United Kingdom
2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Speeding toward a seal, orcas rotate to their sides in unison. The momentum will create a large wave that may be powerful enough to wash the seal off the ice floe.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERTIE GREGORY
Ocean showdown: On a frigid day with thick falling snow, Nat Geo Explorer Bertie Gregory traveled cross the Drake Passage to film a rare Antarctic orca population known for hunting seals by creating waves that knock the marine mammals off pieces of ice.
Instead, the crew ended up documenting something unexpected: two humpback whales (pictured above, right) showed up to disrupt the hunt by the orca predators (above, left).
A basking shark encountering a plankton patch off Scotland’s west coast.
Photographer: Bertie Gregory