Guardian Photographer of the Month January 2017

‘Coming Home’ won the The Guardian Photographer of the Month in January 2017.

Coming Home

Despite the temptation to seek shelter myself, I took this photograph of a small group of gentoo penguins as they struggled against driving sand whipped up by gale force winds to return to their rookery on Saunders Island. Falkland Islands.

Judge Paul Goldstein commented, “I've been to this beach and never got close to this sort of masterpiece.”