A Whale of a Time: Underwater whale adventures
I shot this probably for an hour with over-the-shoulder light - everything you in a picture. I asked "what's on the other side?" and we moved over and I havve never done anything with golden-light pictures, it's the siluette that made them. Photos submitted by Flip Nicklan. Forty-eight years ago Charles ‘Flip’ Nicklin’s father Chuck rode a whale. His family owned a dive shop in San Diego and during a routine dive while he was searching for lobster for dinner with some friends they came across something much bigger. They spotted a whale and approached it in a small boat. As they got closer they realized that its flukes were being held down by an anchor line to a gill net. They approached the gigantic creature with caution and excitement – to their surprise the whale didn’t react to them. They explored the large mammal for awhile; petting it, swimming around it, taking photographs, and eventually Chuck slid onto the back of the whale. “He sat there and waved at the camera- a hero shot,” said Flip Nicklin in his forward for his new book, “Among Giants, Life with Whales.’” That was the day that changed the fate of the Nicklin family forever. After that encounter, his father was…
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