King of the Penguins

Photographer captures awesome picture of chicks copying his pose.

David Merron was visiting St Andrews Bay, on the island of South Georgia, as part of an expedition ship to Antarctica and the sub Antarctic islands.

King penguins form huge breeding colonies - and the one at St Andrews Bay has 150,000 birds.

"The noise from the colony is deafening at times and the smell - well that's something else entirely."

"I was surrounded by mostly chicks , the fluffy brown ones, which are all around nine months old.

"The penguins were curious, some more curious than others. Some would come up and peck at our feet trying to figure out what we were, and if we had food.

"King Penguins are really not scared of humans at all when they're on land, especially the chicks so they didn't mind me being there." -David Merron