.... or should I specify?..... a penguin chick between my tripod's legs?
Up to the moment a friend of mine took this picture of me, I had not realized that there was
a penguin chick in between the legs of my tripod. He apparently got in there while I was very
distracted photographing their colony. Even after I acknowledged its presence, he remained
very calmed and appeared as if the legs of the tripod, and possibly my presence, brought him
a sense of security (I even wondered if the color of my clothing, all black-almost same as his-
appeared to allow him to identify me with them?), but it is well known, and I have experienced
this first hand in many instances, that they are not afraid of people and many times they approach
them for curiosity and other times to drive them away.

JOUGLA POINT, Wiencke Island - Neumayer Channel, in the Antarctic Peninsula.