All-black and all-white penguins - It is hard to be different

 

It is hard to be different - either you end up on the front pages, or you will be bullied.

Black penguins

The black color is due to melanism that causes an overproduction of melanin, and the birds are wholly or partially black. All- black penguins are so rare that they end up on front pages when seen.

Hannah Point at South Shetland Islands in Antarctica

Hannah Point on Livingston Island in South Shetland Islands is a small but very interesting landing site in visitors going to Antarctica.

Hannah Point landscape with Gentoo penguins.

Gentoo penguins in a beautiful landscape.
Photo by Allan Hansen.

Hannah Point is home to an interesting mix of Penguins. There are lots of Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins and a few Macaroni and Adelie penguins.

Fortuna Bay - Reindeer and King penguin

Fortuna Bay in South Georgia Island is a fantastic place. The surrounding landscape is stunning and the King penguin colony / rookery adds to the experience.

Panoramio unusual location contest - new photos

New photos to the next Panoramio contest published on Unusual landscape photos by Allan Hansen. They all enter the Unusual Location category

1. Cuverville Island, Antarctica. The Gentoo penguin colony is worth a visit. The nearby Ronge Island with its glaciers makes a dramatic setting for this Antarctic visitor site.

This is one of my favorite spots in Antarctica


2. Brown Bluff on the Tabarin Peninsula in Antarctica. Adelie penguins entering the water.

Taken back in 2003. Unfortunate we did not go here in 2008 due to an accident on Paulet island and we had to rush to the Chilean base on South Shetland Island.


3. Salisbury Plain in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island. King penguin colony with over 200,000 birds.

Salisbury Plain is a fantastic place. The number of birds is staggering and the surrounding area is stunning.

Lemaire Channel + Gentoo penguin on Panoramio

2 new photos are published on Panoramio:

1.

Lemaire Channel, Antarctica.

Lemaire Channel. The Antarctica scenic highlight. Steep cliffs hem in the iceberg-filled passage, which is 11 km long and just 1,600 meters wide at its narrowest point.

I hope - if you come to Antarctica – that you will see the Lemaire Strait in fine weather like this. The Antarctic Peninsula does have a lot of beautiful sceneries, but this strait is outstanding. This photo is only a 2-dimentional image of this place, and it doesn’t tell the whole story . I guess you have to see with our own eyes to believe it.


2.

Gentoo pengion chicks begging for food.

Hungry Gentoo pengion chicks begging for food at Booth Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

From Wikipedia:

The Gentoo Penguin (pronounced /ˈdʒɛntuː/), Pygoscelis papua, is easily recognized by the wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head. Chicks have grey backs with white fronts. Adult Gentoos reach a height of 51 to 90 cm (20-36 in),[1][2] making them the largest penguins outside of the two giant species, the Emperor Penguin and the King Penguin.

Two eggs are laid, both weighing around 500 g. The parents share incubation, changing duty daily. The eggs hatch after 34 to 36 days. The always hungry chicks remain in the nests for about 30 days before forming creches. The chicks molt into sub-adult plumage and go out to sea at about 80 to 100 days.



See more of my photos at Photos on Panoramio - Google Earth by LichtenHansen

Panoramio - New photos

Published a few new photos for the Panoramio contest: Unusual landscape photos by Allan Hansen

1. Landscape with ocean view at New Island, Falkland Islands. Black-browed albatrosses are nesting just below the rocks with orange lichens.
Entered the Travel category.

2. Icebergs and Adelie penguin rookery near Palmer Station on Ansverse Island in Antarctica.
Entered the Unusual Location category.

2. Fiskenet hængt til tørre i aftenlys ved Tempelkrogens bådelaug ved Ågerup / Arnakke på Sjælland, Danmark.
Entered the Scenery category

King penguin gallery promotion in Smugmug

King penguins are my favorites.
All photos in my little South Georgia Island and King penguin are King penguins.
Links will also be published on Dgrin.
The gallery is a HTML-only gallery with one hidden photo. 6 images are are shown in a HTML table with h1, h2,h3,h4 header and some other stuff, and links to a big size photo. A link to the "popular" or the King penguins in South Georgia island are also shown just below the photos.

Update 2009-08-04:
Made a new gallery and changed the link to reflect this.
The links to my "popular" gallery are replaced with a link to King penguins in South Georgia island because if Google indexes page in the "popular" gallery multiplies the SEO problem with duplicate page titles, duplicate meta data etc.

Update 2010-10-12:
All links are replaced with links to my danish site King Penguins, as I'm closing down my Smugmug account.

Promoting a photo for GIS

Gentoo penguins are my favorites.
All photos in my little penguin photo gallery are penguin photos.
Links are also published on Dgrin.