Kind of like with my polar bear, snow monkey, river otter, orangutan, and meerkat photos, I’m always finding new elephant seal shots in my archives that I originally overlooked. In fact, I probably have more elephant seal photos than any other animal and it takes a while to sift through all the images to get to the ones that I like. I remember finding this large bull early one morning and trying to get shots of his breath contrasted against a dark enough background so that you could see it. Most of the shots ended up being against a bright sky, but a few, like this one, worked out the way I had hoped.