A curious group of king penguins interrupt their morning stroll to investigate the photographer at St. Andrew's Bay.

A lone king penguin stretches in a snow flurry at sunrise on the beach at St. Andrew's Bay.

A leopard seal waits for the penguins to enter the water with the massive penguin colony in the background.

Light hits a scree slope with the last remaining snow of winter clinging to a crack in the rocks above the whaling station at Leith Harbour.

A lone king penguin inspects the photographer at sunrise on the beach at St. Andrew's Bay, one of the largest king penguin colonies in the world.

A pair of king penguins relax at Peggoty Bluff, South Georgia. This is the spot where Shackleton landed after his epic voyage from Elephant Island.

A low lying bank of fog descends over a glacier in Antarctica.

Glacier fronts are beautiful and ever-changing sculptures with intricate detailing and beautiful colours.

A prominent peak protrudes above the fog on a fine morning at St. Andrew's Bay.

A prominent peak catches the early morning sun while the lower areas are shadowed by fog.

Jagged peaks rise over Fortuna Bay on South Georgia.

These dramatic peaks overlook Peggoty Bluff where Shackleton and his men made camp after their epic ocean crossing from Elephant Island.

Another frost-rimed peak guarding the area around Peggoty Bluff, where Shackleton and his men camped before undertaking the first traverse of South Georgia's interior on their rescue mission.

A glacier appears suspended in fog in Charlotte Bay, Antarctica.

A rocky peak is overtopped by a crevassed glacier in Charlotte Bay, Antarctica.

The sheer scale of this colony is hard to grasp. Most of the adult penguins are out fishing, so the majority you see here are the brown juveniles. As you can see, the colony extends a significant way up the glacier to the right!

I love the comedic nature of this image, but also the textures captured in the water by the very high shutter speed used as the gentoo penguin re-enters the water while porpoising.