Book Review

The sea’s edge is sharp against the still-unlit wall of the coastal cliff at five on a summer morning south of Alaska, and from the visible surface there rises a single pink cloud. It is the spout of a humpback, vapors caught in the glow of the rising sun. Sixty-odd more large color photos, dramatic seascapes printed across the long pages without margins, form this remarkable book of wildlife photographs. ...Mitsuaki Iwago has brought home a trophy of insightful images.

... But his book is not confined to the cetacean natural history so insistently sought and so well shown. What he has done as well is make a glowing work of art, a portfolio so well composed, so alive to the sea color and the nuances of the fleeting moment, that in itself it transcends the great whales its subject. Not only whale-watchers of all ages, but anyone who has a sense of visual art, will prize this remarkable collection.

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt