Photographer was sailing about an hour south of Cape Town, South Africa, when he first saw the fins. They broke the surface of the ocean dozens at a time. The fins belonged to common dolphins, and soon Jarvis noticed hundreds, and then thousands, of them, “…so thick you could have walked across their backs had they been game for it,” he wrote . Instinctively, everyone on explorer s 110-foot boat, Pangaea, grabbed their cameras and started shooting photos and video. Then, Jarvis did something unexpected for someone in his line of work. He stopped taking pictures. Instead, he just took things in.
Here is an excerpt of that moment from his blog:
As they approached our boat and quickly surrounded us, our cameras were
blazing … every camera, iPhone, point-and-shoot, DSLR, GoPros, every
camera imaginable was firing off frames … until we realized that they were
with us, and that the moment was actually too rare to shoot
photos. After just a few minutes, we all put down our cameras, we
stopped talking, and we simply took in the beauty with our eyes. In all
of my days as a photographer, there have only been a handful where I鈥檝e
been witnessing/participating in an event like this and simply stopped
shooting to take it in. This was one of those moments.
In the few minutes we did shoot, we were able to get the footage to make
this video above. And while it鈥檚 impossible to truly convey the magic
of this experience鈥擨 hope these clips give you just a little sliver
of what it鈥檚 like to encounter something so rare and stunning鈥攅specially when you least expect it. I think Mike does a good job of
trying to communicate this with his little voiceover we cut into the
video. Once you see something like this, you are truly marked for life.
To read more about how the moment affected the photographer, check out the original post at .
鈥擩oe Spring