Species: Short-Beaked Common Dolphin | Location: Off County Cork Coast, Atlantic Ocean, Ireland
Taken off the coast of County Cork near Union Hall in Ireland. We were out looking for humpback whales. and we came across a huge pod of short-beaked common dolphins. There were hundreds of them. They would dash under, along side and in front of our boat -sprinting through the Atlantic Ocean as if guiding us to the Humpback Whales-which they did. After a full day shooting, I must admit I was more enamored by the dolphins than the whales.
About The Photographer
Joyce Ferder Rankin LRPS was born and raised in Philadelphia and began her career there in 1976 at the age of 17 at a local television station. She went on to become an award-winning journalist working for many of the world’s top broadcasters including BBC, CBS, ITN , Australian Broadcasting and La Cinq (French TV) to name but a few.
Joyce’s assignments included the Falklands War, the Persian Gulf War and the Bosnian War. She was also one of the few women at the time, to work as a cameraperson and video editor covering the world’s hotspots.
For the last 5 years Joyce has been traveling to Antarctica and the Arctic documenting the effects of climate change on wildlife. She has recently had the honor of a one woman exhibition and just published a book called DEGREESº both of which highlight the beauty of our planet that is fast being lost to climate change.
Joyce’s many awards include 2 Emmys including one for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and another for a program about bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Her photographs have been published in National Geographic and other publications worldwide. She has recently been awarded a
Licentiate distinction by the Royal Photographic Society.
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