Antarctica Gallery - David Barr Photography

NatGeo Jaw Dropping Encounter

Leopard Fly By

Leopard Seal performing an aggressive “Fly-By” while patrolling its iceberg in Antarctica (that’s ice at the bottom foreground).

Leopard Serpent

Leopard Seal, serpentine lunge with jaws agape (underwater)

Leopard Portrait

Leopard Seal staring-down the underwater photographer in Antarctica. Behind this seemingly friendly portrait lurks a menacing predator.

Ross Ice Shelf

Ross Ice Shelf photo published in National Geographic Magazine, December 2009. The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica is a gigantic floating glacier the size of Texas or France. Visitors explore a deep blue crevasse near the edge of the shelf, which delineates a large flake of ice ready to fall into the Ross Sea. The shelf rises more than 100 feet above the sea, but extends to depths 1000 feet below the sea surface.

Ross Dependency Stamp

The Ross Ice Shelf photo was selected for the 2012 Ross Dependency Definitive Series of collectible postage stamps by the New Zealand Post.

Fur Seal Dispute

Elephant Seal and Fur Seal dispute over beachfront property

Elephant Seal Portrait

Elephant Seal, South Georgia Island

Weddell Seal

Dessicated Seal

Centuries-old dessicated seal carcass sublimating in the frigid desert of Taylor Dry Valley

Elephant Kings

Elephant seal in tussock grass near King penguin rookery, South Georgia Island

King Portrait

King penguin portrait, South Georgia Island

Whale Skeleton

Whale skeleton with Gentoo penguins nesting near and inside

Gentoo Krill

Gentoo penguin regurgitating krill to its fledgling chick

Adelies On Ice

Adelie penguins on storm-stacked sea ice

Adelie Eggs

Adelie penguin inspecting its eggs

Adelies Galore

100,000 Adelie penguins nesting at their Cape Adare rookery

Chinstrap Ensemble

Chinstrap penguin ensemble

Chinstrap Fledgling

Chinstrap penguin fledgling portrait

Star Stars Embrace

Sea Stars embrace while sharing a meal in frigid Antarctic waters (underwater)

Limpet Crustaceans

Limpet with tiny crustaceans (underwater)

Golden Glacier

Glacier face illuminated by golden sunset

Lenticular Sunset Full

Lenticular clouds at sunset

Lenticular Sunset Detail

Lenticular clouds at sunset (detail)

Blue Iceberg

Blue Iceberg Eroded

Blue iceberg with eroded grooves

Blue Iceberg Arch

Blue iceberg with fragile arch

Blue Stripe Iceberg

Iceberg with blue stripe (meltwater has refrozen into a solid block of clear ice). Notice also the Lion's Head appearance at the top of the iceberg.

Stonington Hut

Glacier threatens historic hut of American Base Station on Stonington Island

Transport Wilderness

Antarctic researchers transport their equipment in the vast expanse of Antarctica

Copper Efflorescence

Green Copper compounds efflorescing from bedrock

Marguerite Bay

Glaciated mountains reflected in Marguerite Bay

Scott Hut

Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s historic 1910-13 Terra Nova hut, Cape Evans, Ross Island (active volcano Mt. Erebus in the background)

Chemistry Bench

Chemistry bench inside Scott’s historic Terra Nova hut

Shackleton Hut

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton's historic 1907-1910 Nimrod hut, Cape Royds, Ross Island

Stromness

Stromness Whaling Station under gale-force katabatic winds, South Georgia Island (also visible in the background is the final leg of the Shackelton Walk)

Humpback Breach

Humpback whale breaching, upside-down and just before the splash

Albatross

Black-browed Albatross (these giant birds soar enough mileage during their lifetime to circle the globe 140 times, according to National Geographic)

Bouvet

Bouvet Island at dawn (the most remotely located island territory on the planet)