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Conservation, Adventure & Wildlife Filmmaker
🏔️ Aotearoa / New Zealand
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Summer meltwater cascades off a glacier into the o Summer meltwater cascades off a glacier into the ocean in Svalbard.

📷 @richardsidey 

#glacier #waterfall #melting #climatechange #arctic
At the time of filming, this was the world’s large At the time of filming, this was the world’s largest iceberg. A23a was enormous - 70km long and 50km wide, an area of 3500 square km and up to 400m thick in places.

📷 @richardsidey & @ianjstrachan 

#antarctica #iceberg #climatechange #a23a #océan
Humpback Whale takes a deep dive in Antarctica 📷 Humpback Whale takes a deep dive in Antarctica 

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#humpbackwhale #whale #antarctica #wildlifephotography #nature
Honoured to be named a finalist in @nzgeo Photogra Honoured to be named a finalist in @nzgeo Photographer of the Year, with this aerial abstract of rock and ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound.

In photography I love when you can't initially tell if an image is either a macro or a wide shot - in this case it is a vast landscape, the photo taken from high above with a drone. Scale is so easily lost in the enormity of Antarctica! For those wondering - this is also a colour image.

The finalists’ images from this years competition are absolutely brilliant and now on display. Head over to the New Zealand Geographic website to view and vote for your favourites - link in bio.

📷 @richardsidey 

#antarctica #nzgeo #ice #topdowndroneshots #poty2026
Enormous Glacier calving in the high Arctic. The p Enormous Glacier calving in the high Arctic. The pillar of ice that rises out of the ocean is ginormous. Filmed in Svalbard.

📷 @richardsidey 

#glacier #glaciercalving #climatechange #ice #nature
Huge iceberg calving off the coast off Ilulissat, Huge iceberg calving off the coast off Ilulissat, Greenland, filmed from the side of the road at 3am. 

📷 @richardsidey 

#iceberg #collapse #climatechange #ice #greenland
Tidewater Glaciers calving into the sea – filmed i Tidewater Glaciers calving into the sea - filmed in Alaska and Svalbard.

📷 @richardsidey 

#glacier #glaciercalving #ice #climatechange #nature
A glacier begins to calve in Southeast Alaska 📷 @ A glacier begins to calve in Southeast Alaska

📷 @richardsidey 

#glacier #glaciercalving #ice #alaska #climatechange
A large glacier calving in the high arctic. 📷 @ri A large glacier calving in the high arctic.

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#glacier #arctic #climatechange #glaciercalving #nature
Eye contact with a Beluga Whale 😍 Sound on to hea Eye contact with a Beluga Whale 😍

Sound on to hear the chatter!

📷 @richardsidey in Hudson Bay, Canada

#belugawhale #beluga #hudsonbay #wildlife #nature
To be a penguin for a day… 😍 📷 @richardsidey # To be a penguin for a day... 😍

📷 @richardsidey

#adeliepenguin #penguin #antarctica #wildlife #nature
Filming wildlife from a sea kayak can be challengi Filming wildlife from a sea kayak can be challenging - you need to keep yourself stable and in position to film while simultaneously contending with current, wind and swell.

Today I took out my newest and smallest gimbal camera - the Luna Ultra from Insta360 with its 12x telephoto - on my local coastline.

There's a lot to like about this tiny camera, including the way it locks onto the wildlife so I can concentrate on my kayaking whilst filming.

You can check out this new camera via my linktree [link in bio]

@insta360 @insta360.anz 

#Insta360 #Insta360LunaUltra #VloggingCamera #GimbalCamera #kaiteriteri
Everything in its right place 🌊 • Peter Øy, Antar Everything in its right place 🌊

• Peter Øy, Antarctica
• Conflict Islands, Papua New Guinea
• Niue, South Pacific
• Iceberg, Antarctica
• Oeno, Pitcairn Islands x2

📷 @richardsidey 

#waves #ocean #nature #stillness #peace
Humpback Rainbows in Antarctica 🌈 🐳 📷 @richardsi Humpback Rainbows in Antarctica 🌈 🐳 

📷 @richardsidey & @alisciayoung 

#humpbackwhale #whales #antarctica #ocean #nature
Sound on – The music of the Whanganui River 🎵 📷 Sound on - The music of the Whanganui River 🎵 

📷 @richardsidey 

#aotearoa #newzealand #birdsong #dawnchorus #nature
Watching albatross at sea – No better way to spend Watching albatross at sea - No better way to spend the day! Here are five species from my last journey south.

Slide 1 • Campbell Albatross
Slide 2 • Light-mantled Albatross
Slide 3 • Southern Royal Albatross
Slide 4 • Northern Royal Albatross
Slide 5 • Black-browed Albatross

Which is your favourite?

📷 Richard Sidey with EYOS Expeditions 

#albatross #southernocean #seabirds #wildlife #birds
Frames from Cape Adare – World's largest Adélie p Frames from Cape Adare -  World's largest Adélie penguin colony. 

Every year, half-a-million penguins return to this remote, rocky coastline to breed and raise their chicks. Cape Adare is a special place because it has been used by Adélie penguins for generations, with evidence showing that the colony has existed for thousands of years. During the breeding season, the rookery becomes a busy, noisy place filled with penguins building nests from small stones, laying eggs, and caring for their chicks.

Life at Cape Adare is tough. The penguins must survive freezing temperatures, strong winds, sea ice, and predators such as leopard seals and skuas. They spend much of their time at sea catching fish and krill, then return to the rookery to feed their chicks. Because Cape Adare is so remote, it has remained relatively undisturbed by people, making it an important place for scientists studying penguin behaviour and Antarctica's changing environment.

Cape Adare also has an important human history. In 1899, members of the Southern Cross Expedition became the first people to spend a winter on the Antarctic continent, building huts at Cape Adare. Later, explorers from the famous Terra Nova Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott, also used the area. Today, the historic huts remain as a reminder of the dangers and challenges faced by early Antarctic explorers.

 📷 @richardsidey 

#adéliepenguin #penguin #capeadare #antarctica #wildlife
Ghosts in the Forest – A Spirit Bear wanders upriv Ghosts in the Forest - A Spirit Bear wanders upriver in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, just as the afternoon sun pierces the dense rainforest canopy.

Spirit bears, also known as Kermode bears, are a rare type of black bear found in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, Canada, with creamy white fur because of a unique genetic trait. They are not albinos—their eyes and skin still have normal pigmentation. Spirit bears play an important role in their ecosystem by helping spread nutrients from salmon into the forest. Many Indigenous peoples of the region consider spirit bears to be sacred and see them as symbols of balance, respect, and the connection between nature and culture. Because there are only a few hundred spirit bears in the wild, protecting their habitat is important for their survival.

📷 @richardsidey

#spiritbear #kermodebear #greatbearrainforest #bear #wildlife
Gorgeous Arctic Fox 🤍 Photographed in the abandon Gorgeous Arctic Fox 🤍

Photographed in the abandoned arctic Soviet mining town of Pyramiden in Svalbard.

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#arcticfox #fox #pyramiden #svalbard #wildlife
An Arctic Fox, with the beginnings of its white wi An Arctic Fox, with the beginnings of its white winter coat, scavanges along the base of enormous seabird cliffs during the summer in Svalbard.

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#arcticfox #fox #svalbard #wildlife #nature
Brown Bear munching Salmon in Alaska 🐻 Filmed fro Brown Bear munching Salmon in Alaska 🐻

Filmed from the side of the road next to the Chilkoot River, whilst I was taking a bike ride. Always pack your telephoto lens, where ever you go in Alaska - it's wild!

📷 @richardsidey 

#alaska #grizzlybear #bear #brownbear #wildlife
Blue Whales – A mother and her calf in Antarctica. Blue Whales - A mother and her calf in Antarctica.

Blue whales are the largest creature to ever live on Earth, and not really suitable for the vertical video format! Every encounter with these ocean giants is a special one.

📷 @richardsidey 

#bluewhale #whale #antarctica #wildlife #ocean
A rare encounter with North Atlantic Type 2 Killer A rare encounter with North Atlantic Type 2 Killer Whales in Nunavut, Canada. The footage shows a large pod with several youngh calves, feeding on fish near Pond Inlet.

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#killerwhale #orca #canada #wildlife #nature
Who will make it to the top? Rockhopper Penguins Who will make it to the top?

Rockhopper Penguins climb a slippery slope to their colony in the Falkland Islands.

#rockhopperpenguin #penguin #wildlife #falklands #funnyanimals
Big beautiful bear on the arctic sea ice 🤍 📷 @ri Big beautiful bear on the arctic sea ice 🤍 

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#polarbear #bear #arctic #wildlife #nature
This is Antarctica • Part II Dramatic, vast, host This is Antarctica • Part II

Dramatic, vast, hostile and full of incredible beauty, Antarctica is a photographer’s paradise. Here is a collection of favourite moments from my recent assignments to the Antarctic Peninsula.

Scenes include venturing deep through the pack ice into Larsen Bay onboard icebreaker Legend; a visit to A23a, the largest iceberg on earth; lots of wildlife including Blue Whales, Crabeater Seals, Adelie and Chinstrap Penguins porposing; plus visual highlights from a wonderful Conservation International Humpback Whale Research assignment.

This is a vertical edit of the original scope film, which can be found on my YouTube channel - link in bio.

Thanks to EYOS Expeditions Conservation International and the amazing team of Antarctic Science Expedition 2023

Music track:
Ambient Fathers by ‪Kyle Preston

#antarctica #nature #wildlife #whale #penguin
The strength to be able to do this! 💪 A huge Pol The strength to be able to do this! 💪 

A huge Polar Bear hauls itself from the sea onto an ice floe in drifting in the Arctic Ocean.

📷 @richardsidey with @eyosexpeditions 

#polarbear #arctic #bear #wildlife #nature
This is Antarctica • Part I Dramatic, vast, hosti This is Antarctica • Part I

Dramatic, vast, hostile and full of incredible beauty, Antarctica is a photographer's paradise. Here is a collection of favourite moments from my recent assignments to the Antarctic Peninsula.

Scenes include venturing deep through the pack ice into Larsen Bay onboard icebreaker Legend; a visit to A23a, the largest iceberg on earth; lots of wildlife including Blue Whales, Crabeater Seals, Adelie and Chinstrap Penguins porposing; plus visual highlights from a wonderful Conservation International Humpback Whale Research assignment.

This is a vertical edit of the original scope film, which can be found on my YouTube channel - link in bio.

Thanks to @eyosexpeditions  @conservationorg and the amazing team of Antarctic Science Expedition 2023

Music track:
Ambient Fathers by ‪@kylepreston

#antarctica #whale #penguin #drone #richardsidey
The dream whale encounter 😍🩵🐳 During a whale rese The dream whale encounter 😍🩵🐳

During a whale research assignment in Antarctica, two Humpbacks chose to interact with our team of scientists for over an hour in perfect conditions. 

This encounter is documented in my short documentary - Whales in a Changing Ocean - free to watch on YouTube.

📷 @richardsidey with @conservationorg 

#whale #antarctica #humpbackwhale #wildlife #nature
Communicating through Bubbles 🐳 What do you think Communicating through Bubbles 🐳

What do you think the humpack whale in the middle was saying to the whale on its right?

📷 @richardsidey with @conservationorg 

#humpbackwhale #whale #antarctica #wildlife #ocean
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