Photo of widowed penguins comforting each other wins Community Choice Award
By Umera Riyaz| Published: 23rd December 2020 6:11 pm IST Photo: Instagram/ tobiasvisuals
The viral picture of the two widowed penguins has won the Community Choice Award at Oceanographic magazine’s Ocean Photography Awards 2020.
In the heartwarming picture, we can see the two penguins comforting each other, as they stare into the Melbourne skyline.
This shot was captured by a German photographer and videographer, Tobias Baumgaertner. He first uploaded this picture on Instagram in March 2020.
Baumgaertner explained in the caption that both the penguins had lost their partners and regularly met to comfort each other at the spot.
Tobias Baumgaertner
AGAINST a background of city lights, two fairy penguins huddle together to watch the skyline and ocean at the end of the St Kilda Pier in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
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Shot by photographer Tobias Baumgaertner, the image captures the pair away from the bustle of their colony. “It was really hard to get a shot, but I got lucky during one beautiful moment,” he wrote in the caption to the image, shared on Instagram.
The two penguins would regularly stand together and watch the lights of Melbourne for hours, he says.
St Kilda Pier has a colony of around 1400 fairy penguins (