Stunning Life-Sized Photos Capture Close Encounters With Whales http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Few people are lucky enough to have had a quiet underwater encounter with a whale. For the rest of us, there are photos like these: Life-size composites of sperm, humpback and minke whales, captured from less than 6 feet away. The full-sized prints (and the smaller digital versions in this gallery) bring our enormous marine kindred into a nearly tactile reality, revealing the seemingly tiny folds around a whale's inquisitive eye, the crustaceans adhering to a whale's skin, or the color variations that make individual whales beautiful and distinct.



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