Most times we entered the water with these beautiful animals they would simply dive down leaving us with a just tantalising glimpse as they disappeared into the depths. <\/p>\n
Even when they stayed close to us for a while out of curiosity the low light and the poor visibility meant that our human eyes were much better suited to simply watching than looking through a viewfinder.<\/p>\n
As I gave my attention to this large male cruising beneath me, ten others of the pod cruised right by me to my chagrin and the delight of the others. I did however get to see them for just a moment before they also disappeared into the distance.<\/p>\n
Still I am in awe of this particular moment when I was so close that I could have reached out and touched his fin.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Beauty Below Me’, 1\/160s f\/2.8 ISO8000 31mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most times we entered the water with these beautiful animals they would simply dive down leaving us with a just tantalising glimpse as they disappeared into the depths. Even when they stayed close to us for a while out of curiosity the low light and the poor visibility meant that our human eyes were much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,1644,2404,465,2380,70,2386,25,2389,197,1060,1638,2383,2384],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-cetacean","tag-killerwhale","tag-nature","tag-norway","tag-ocean","tag-orca","tag-photography","tag-skjervoy","tag-underwater","tag-underwaterphotography","tag-whale","tag-whalesunderwater","tag-whalesunderwater18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}