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Your Scene: The jump of the penguin in Antarctica

From The Los Angeles Times
05:55 PM PST, February 26, 2008

In deep Antarctica in January, Cliff Getz, 83, of Laguna Beach got the picture of his life -- this "silly, little, gorgeous" penguin, as he calls it. He tells the story: "I saw that he was considering jumping, and the crowd behind me, as well as myself, were yelling, 'Jump, jump, jump,' and when he finally jumped, I caught this great picture." He used a Nikon D2X.

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