Shooting a great wildlife photo usually involves a lot of risk and a number of tries as well as a considerable amount of time.

However, sometimes, you might just get lucky and take an otherwise impossible shot.

It just happened with a photographer who captured a baby seal waving at them.

The photographer, Johan Siggesson, took a number of photos of the seal pup relaxing at a beach and in one of them, the seal appears to be waving for the camera.

Johan said: “It was an amazing experience to spend time with these seals. We had some horrible weather the first days with rain, hail and wind.”

The hard work and patience of the photographer paid off well and the photos really came out to be amazing.

Johan, from Sweden, came to this beach to spot some seals. His journey was fruitful as he actually captured some great shots of the seals while they were sunbathing.

In one of the shots, the seal who’s the subject of the photo can be seen lifting up one of its flippers in a fashion analogous to waving for the camera.

In another photo, a seal can be seen with its flipper raised to its head as though it was thinking on some very important matter.

Johan shared the amazing shots on Facebook, captioning them: “Back to the babies again then. It’s easy to be drawn to these cuties when working on the beach here in the UK.

“If you lack a bit of inspiration there’s always a cute pup around.”

Johan further made clear that while he was standing at just 10 meters from the seal, the animal appeared to be in “complete bliss.”

Naturally, seals come ashore to give birth from November to January each year, which makes this time of the year the perfect time to spot them.

However, you might not find the scholar seal or the friendly seal that Johan found.

Another picture that recently made headlines was from Yongqing Bao, who snapped a Tibetan fox attacking a Himalayan marmot earlier in 2019.

The picture won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

The incredible photo showed the exact moment when the fox attacked the rodent. The poor animal was seen with its mouth open in shock.

Judge Roz Kidman Cox said: “Photographically, it is quite simply the perfect moment.

“The expressive intensity of the postures holds you transfixed, and the thread of energy between the raised paws seems to hold the protagonists in perfect balance.

“Images from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are rare enough, but to have captured such a powerful interaction between a Tibetan fox and a marmot – two species key to the ecology of this high-grassland region – is extraordinary.”

 

 

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