Photographs / Whales and ocean / Blue whale sounding, Mirissa trench

A blue whale diving with its fluke raised against a flat sea

How this one happened

Made at Mirissa, Sri Lanka in February 2026, 09:30. Like most of what is on this site, it came from going back to the same place until something happened.

What you get: the frame as shot, cropped only at the edges to square the horizon. No compositing, no added animals, no sky replacement — that goes for every photograph on this site.

The details

Species: Balaenoptera musculus
Place: Mirissa, Sri Lanka
Date: February 2026, 09:30
Camera: Nikon Z9
Lens: 400 mm f/2.8
Exposure: 1/1000 s, f/4, ISO 800
File: 8256 × 5504 px, 45.7 MP
Edition: 25 per size, 25 remaining

Blue whale sounding, Mirissa trench

Signed and numbered, edition of 25

Print size

Framing Paper

$210

Free shipping worldwide. Made and dispatched from Colombo in 5 to 7 days.

Printing and paper

Pigment ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 100% cotton paper with no optical brighteners, rated beyond 100 years under glass. Each print carries a 2 cm white border for handling, is signed on the front and numbered on the back.

Shipping and returns

Rolled in a rigid tube, tracked, and free anywhere. Framed pieces ship within Sri Lanka only. If a print arrives damaged, send a photograph within seven days and a replacement goes out the same week.

What a licence covers

Licences are non-exclusive unless you buy the exclusive tier, cover one named project, and never include resale of the file itself. For anything unusual — a hotel commissioning forty panels, a broadcaster wanting worldwide rights — write to me instead.

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