It is quite easy to approach humpbacks, which makes them a nice and easy subject for wildlife photography.

But we were very lucky to find a large group of those cetaceans relaxing in a fjord and slowly cruising around. The most pleasant (nad actually stunning) was to discover that one of them was a young guy willing to have a bit of fun jumping out (breaching) regularly (and quite often). This created a marvelous photo op, and an unforgettable moment, with plenty of splashes captured by the camera…

Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), baleine à bosse.
Wrangel Island, Russia.
August 2018.

The first one is really about being there at the right time (and being cool enough to keep shooting the video the whole time):

The second is shot from a profesional drone and shows a very interesting behaviour (two males battling for the privilege of swimming around with a female and her newborn calf):