Brian Skerry is the photojournalist credited for the picture titled “Right Whales”. I got this photograph from Mr. Skerry's personal website along with some facts about his career. This photograph shows Mr. Skerry's partner Maruicio Handler diving off the coast of the Auckland Islands in New Zealand extremely close to a right whale on the ocean's floor. The photo first showed in the Oct issue of National Geographic Magazine in 2008. This picture is an unusual one as the whale was said to have looked at them with much curiosity and swam by multiple times for a closer look.
Brian Skerry began photo journalistic career in 1998 with National Geographic Magazine and has taken a wide variety of photos for the magazine since his arrival. Skerry is a very skilled underwater photographer as he uses the rays of light to capture different color effects in the water. Skerry also brings to light a lot of sea and ocean issues with his photos as he says photojournalism can be a powerful instrument in the improvement of our oceans.
The news values in this photograph are bizarreness and impact. This photo is very bizarre because very seldom are we able to see a picture of a whale and man so close interacting undrwater in the whales natural habitat. The man in the photo seems to be unaffected by the size of the animal as it curiously swims around him to get a better look. This photo also has the value of impact. It is an amazing sight to see a man at the oceans floor interacting with a fully grown whale and to see the beauty that this picture captures is breathtaking.
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