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Drone video captures two orcas majestically cruising on a Sunday

The land of the long white cloud seems to be teeming with orcas RN.
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Drone video captures two orcas majestically cruising on a Sunday
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New Zealand seems to simply be teeming with orcas, but it's still special to get a close-up look.

Photographer Jack Preston was diving with friends Sunday when he encountered the orcas, which he said were hunting for stingray, and captured the video via drone .

"Wildlife photography is very opportunistic and luck based, you can't just say 'okay today I'm going out to shoot orca', we were just in the right place at the right time and the conditions that day were perfect for photography and for flying the drone," Preston told the New Zealand Herald.

Yep, pretty stunning.

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Mashable Australia's Web Culture Reporter.Reach out to me on Twitter at @Johnny_Lieu or via email at jlieu [at] mashable.com


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