These Widowed Penguins Enjoying The Skyline Together Are The Cutest Thing You’ll See Today

If there’s one thing that we can all agree on being THE BEST, it’s animal pictures. Whether it’s incredible wildlife or even someone on Instagram’s dogs, I’m all for any cute creature pics I can get. However, I feel like wildlife photographer Tobias Baumgaertner caught perhaps one of the best pictures ever: two widowed penguins enjoying a quiet moment in front of the Melbourne skyline.

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During times like this the truly lucky ones are those that can be with the person/people they love most. I captured this moment about a year ago. These two Fairy penguins poised upon a rock overlooking the Melbourne skyline were standing there for hours, flipper in flipper, watching the sparkling lights of the skyline and ocean. A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left. Since then they meet regularly comforting each other and standing together for hours watching the dancing lights of the nearby city. I spend 3 full nights with this penguin colony until I was able to get this picture. Between not being able or allowed to use any lights and the tiny penguins continuously moving, rubbing their flippers on each other’s backs and cleaning one another, it was really hard to get a shot but i got lucky during one beautiful moment. I hope you enjoy this moment as much as I did. #lovewillalwayswin • 📸 @tobiasvisuals •Shot on Nikon Z6, Nikkor 50mm 1.4, ISO 8000, 50mm, f/1.4, 1/60 sec

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  1. The photo was actually taken in 2019. However, Baumgeartner didn’t share it on his Instagram page until last month and it didn’t go viral on Twitter until this week. However, given that this is a timeless picture, it hardly matters when the photo was taken. Penguins watching the night sky is amazing forever!
  2. The penguins are widowed! I can’t bear it! As Baumgeartner explained on Instagram, “During times like this the truly lucky ones are those that can be with the person/people they love most. I captured this moment about a year ago. These two Fairy penguins poised upon a rock overlooking the Melbourne skyline were standing there for hours, flipper in flipper, watching the sparkling lights of the skyline and ocean. A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left. Since then they meet regularly comforting each other and standing together for hours watching the dancing lights of the nearby city.”
  3. It took him three nights to capture the windowed penguins like this.spent three full nights with this penguin colony until I was able to get this picture,” he wrote. “Between not being able or allowed to use any lights and the tiny penguins continuously moving, rubbing their flippers on each other’s backs and cleaning one another, it was really hard to get a shot but I got lucky during one beautiful moment. I hope you enjoy this moment as much as I did.
  4. Who knew widowed penguins could steal my heart? This is definitely the cutest thing I’ve seen all week and potentially in recent memory. Just look how precious they are! How happy they are to have each other! Ugh, be still my heart.
  5. Check out more of Baumgeartner’s photography on his Instagram page HERE. Give him a follow while you’re at it. You won’t be sorry!

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Pinguins Part 2. “… Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose” The way that these two lovebirds were caring for one another stood out from the entire colony. While all the other penguins were sleeping or running around, those two seemed to just stand there and enjoy every second they had together, holding each other in their flippers and talking about penguin stuff. Pain has brought them together (see PART 1). I guess sometimes you find love when you least expect it. It’s a privilege to truly love someone, paradisiacal when they love you back. 📸 @tobiasvisuals • (Even though it is very similar to the previous image I thought it’d be a pity to not share it with you guys)

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