October 10th, 2016 around 9:40am on a Monterey Bay Pelagic Trip a Sperm whale was spotted. The captain stated this was the first sighting in over 5 years of a Sperm whale. The seas and wind were very rough. I had all I could do to get myself upright, raise my heavy 150 - 600 Sigma Sport lens and a Nikon D810 and snap a photo. Photographing Whale on a boat is a very difficult. Even on calm days you never know when they will be spotted and sometimes they will dive for more than 15 minutes than come up in a different directions from where they were last spotted. You also have the motion of the boat going up and down and side to side depending which way the boat is facing the wind. I love this type of adventure because of all these challenges.
Sperm Whale Gallery