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Another Great Walrus Photo from National Geographic Prints Store

(C) Pete Barrett, National Geographic Image Collection

Check out this great photo available from the National Geographic Prints Store. I have another walrus print from this store hanging on my office wall, but I may have to order this one too. Prints from the store range in price from $24.95 up to a 50″ print for $199. Think my girlfriend will let me get THAT one into the house? Yeah, me neither.

Here’s the link to this photo. Such a thoughtful walrus, and a great photo – please support this photographer by buying a print, if you feel like your home or office needs a little extra walrus!

http://gallery.pictopia.com/natgeo/photo/9448943/

I love this walrus photo

Samka (morse walrus) by Lucie Gattou

I love this photo, from Canadian Photographer Lucie Gattou. She allows downloading of the image from her Flickr stream, via a Creative Commons license. I  have recently printed an 8×10 to frame and stick up on the wall! Great shot.

Here is the link to Ms. Gattou’s Flickr Stream.

Here is the direct link to the main page for this photo.

Watch Great Migrations Tonight

The Daily Galaxy alerts us to the following:

Walrus Migration
Walrus Migration Shot

This stunning image of Alaska’s annual walrus migration is from the new National Geographic mini-series, Great Migrations, which will premiere this Sunday in high-definition and include seven episodes focused on the inspirational, often harrowing animal migrations across the globe.

The story goes on to highlight various quotes from articles about current global warming concerns and the major haul-out that has occurred this fall, which we have blogged about int he recent past. In case we get fooled for a minute thinking that walruses are just good models for stuffed animals and amusing cartoon characters, the Daily  Galaxy article ends with the quote:

Unless we dramatically reduce our greenhouse emissions, the walrus is on a trajectory toward extinction

Here’s a link to the entire Daily Galaxy story.

Here’s a link to the Great Migrations page at National Geographic.com (warning this page launches with rather loud advertising audio). My son and I will be tuning into watch this show tonight, and I hope they’ll make it available on-demand, since I’m notoriously bad at watching shows when they are actually scheduled to be on. Oh, it’s on the National Geographic channel by they way.

One more interesting note, to me at least. The photo heading the post, and the Daily Galaxy post, is by Paul Nicklen and is available as Desktop Wallpaper from National Geographic.com and you can buy a photographic print of this photo at the National Geographic photo store at this link. I did! I’ve had this photo framed on my wall for over a year, after I saw it in the print edition of the Geographic (April 2009). So uh, don’t sue me Paul, for using your print on this post – I bought one!

I remember back in the day when the occasional National Geographic special would be a family event, where we would all gather around the TV and wait for that short lead in “Special!” long before cable TV and several constant National Geographic channels. Looking forward to that feeling tonight. I’ll be watching for walruses!