Cape Fur Seals off Seal Island, Hout Bay...

This morning Barry Skinstad, Ian and I took a drive out to Seal Island, just around the corner from Hout Bay, to film a sequence for Earth-Touch. The conditions were favourable, albeit moody, with a light pervasive cloud creating a natural scrim that softened the light quite dramatically. I had mistakenly left my camera flash settings on red-eye mode, which generated a lag between me pushing the shutter release and the camera firing, resulting in me eventually turning the strobes off and shooting with natural light only. This image of a young fur seal evokes best for me the feel of the dive - mysterious, fluid and somber.

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