“Wild?” | Show Me Nature Photography

Today’s post was inspired by an image I ran across while working in my Lightroom catalog of images recently.

When you visit the wild nature, you expect things to be “wild”. Is a sea lion with a snorkel “wild”? Your call!

While exploring and photographing the Baja Peninsula (Mexico) in 2013, we were on a boat for several days as we explored the Sea of Cortez. Not far from Cabo San Lucas is a California Sea Lion colony. We typically stop here to snorkel with the sea lions, however the weather was not very good for snorkeling during our visit … the sea was not very calm, so most of the time was spent on the boat.

Watching the sea lions frolic about, one emerged with a snorkel in his mouth:

Photographic Equipment Used:

• Canon 7D camera body
• Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens
• Handheld, with IS “On”
• ISO 640
• Aperture f/8
• Shutter 1/500 sec.