Ole Jorgen Liodden / Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) blowing, with Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) in the water spray. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, August. Runner up in the Birds category of GDT competition 2014.

Wild Wonders of Europe / E. Haarberg / Black grouse (Tetrao tertrix) male portrait, exhaling warm air on a cold morning, Bergslagen, Sweden, April 2009

Graham Eaton / Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) reaching the surface and exhaling, Hermanus, South Africa, July

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) blowing. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, August.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) exhaling while surfacing which creates bubbles, Prince William Sound, Alaska

Steven Kazlowski / Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) exhaling through blowhole, swimming through open lead in the pack ice during spring migration, Chukchi Sea, off shore from Barrow, Alaska  

Tim Laman / Californian sea lion {Zalophus californianus} exhaling air bubbles, amongst Giant kelp forest, off Santa Barbara, California, USA, July

Matthew Maran / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge feeding in Barkley Sound, exhaling mid-lunge. Vancouver Island, Canada

Doug Perrine / False killer whale ( Pseudorca crassidens ) with mouth open, showing large conical teeth, and exhaling a bubble blast from blowhole, captive, aquarium, from Indo-pacific, digitally manipulated

Brent Hedges / Afro-australian fur seal {Arctocephalus pusillus} underwater exhaling airbubbles out of nose, South Australia.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Orca (Orcinus orca) exhaling while surfacing which creates bubbles, Prince William Sound, Alaska