Breach and Breath #7
by Shoal Hollingsworth
Title
Breach and Breath #7
Artist
Shoal Hollingsworth
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A breaching humpback whale taking a breath. This whale is nicnamed Bowman after my father. Here is a link to this whales website http://www.happywhale.com/individual/1826. The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. It is one of the larger rorqual species, with adults ranging in length from 39–52 ft and weighing around 28–33 tons. The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviors, making it popular with whale watchers.
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October 18th, 2015
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Comments (12)
Rainbow Artist Orlando L
Absolutely a marvelous capture of this magnificent humpback whale taking a breath Shoal!! fantastic energy in this awesome action shot!! L/F
Kathryn Jones
A great capture of what is obviously a happy, healthy creature!
Shoal Hollingsworth replied:
Thank you Kathryn, actually this whale was very ill and had recently been rescued from a fishing net
Anthony Jones
Beautiful work, Shoal! Thank you for submitting your artwork to the Southern California Artist Collective Group where the image is now featured on the home page. Feel free to post this in the Featured archive in the group discussion page.section L/F