Free Expressions
San Juan Islands, 2024
Limited Edition Fine Art Print of 6—To think of these beautiful, intelligent, social animals in captivity simply breaks my heart. Watch any highly intelligent animal in the wild for a given period of time, and you can’t fathom them in a cage or closed tank. For hours, I watched this pod roll around playing, tail slapping, rubbing, and vocalizing with each other. Even at a distance, you could see how much they cared for one another. The love was evident. Love is not exclusively a human emotion. This pod was expressing it in every way possible. Free to express this joy of family. Free from a tank for entertainment. Free to express their love for life and one another. Copyright Derek Nielsen Photography.
