Picture of two penguins comforting each other wins top photography award
The well-captured shot was taken by Tobias Baumgaertner, a German award-winning videographer and photographer who shared it on his Instagram account as well
- Dec 23, 2020,
- Updated Dec 23, 2020 2:32 PM IST
A picture showing two widowed penguins comforting each other has bagged the Community Choice Award at Oceanographic magazine's Ocean Photography Awards 2020.
The photo in which the penguins appear to comfort one another while staring into the distance at Melbourne's St. Kilda Pier has gone viral on social media, winning hearts.
The well-captured shot was taken by Tobias Baumgaertner, a German award-winning videographer and photographer who shared it on his Instagram account as well. According to the caption of the image, the two penguins, who had recently lost their partners, were standing on a rock for hours, overlooking the Melbourne skyline.
There is a colony of approximately 1,400 fairy penguins, the smallest penguin species with an average height of just 13 inches, in St. Kilda Pier in Melbourne. "A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left," Baumgaertner wrote on Instagram.
A picture showing two widowed penguins comforting each other has bagged the Community Choice Award at Oceanographic magazine's Ocean Photography Awards 2020.
The photo in which the penguins appear to comfort one another while staring into the distance at Melbourne's St. Kilda Pier has gone viral on social media, winning hearts.
The well-captured shot was taken by Tobias Baumgaertner, a German award-winning videographer and photographer who shared it on his Instagram account as well. According to the caption of the image, the two penguins, who had recently lost their partners, were standing on a rock for hours, overlooking the Melbourne skyline.
There is a colony of approximately 1,400 fairy penguins, the smallest penguin species with an average height of just 13 inches, in St. Kilda Pier in Melbourne. "A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left," Baumgaertner wrote on Instagram.