The low-lying Sun strikes the waves, bursting through as though along a faultline.
This light show was accompanied by a symphony of killer whale whistles and songs as one of the pod surfaced for a breath. The day after Audun took this, the polar winter began, and the Sun disappeared altogether for more than two months. Killer whales work co-operatively to hunt herring. They force the fish into tight groups by circling them, flashing their white bellies and emitting a cacophony of clicks and whistles. One whale will then surge into the shoal, performing underwater tail slaps, stunning the herring motionless to be snapped up by the pod.
Norway
Audun is a photographer and full-time professor of biology at the Arctic University of Norway. Growing up in a small fishing community in northern Norway, he developed a lifelong fascination with the Arctic's rough landscape, culture and wildlife, both above and below the ocean's surface. He uses his fieldwork photography to inspire his students and to draw attention to the science.
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