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PHOTO OF THE DAY January 16, 2004  

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Where South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Juvenile king penguins preen on the shore. They'll stay with their parents for just over a year, and then they will fatten, molt, and leave the colony.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Shackleton: Epic of Survival," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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