As any professional photographer will tell you, it can often be hard to get your subject to crack a smile.
However, there was no such problem for Amos Nachoum when he encountered this 12ft leopard seal.
As he bravely edged his camera close to the fearsome predator's face, it obligingly opened its jaws and showed off a fine set of 2in razor-sharp teeth.
Roar: The leopard seal's two-inch teeth look like they are about to take the lens off the camera in this image taken by Amos Nachoun and his team in Antarctica
The seal takes another run at the camera - whose operator must have nerves of steel
An experienced photographer of underwater wildlife, Nachoum spotted the seal as it hunted penguin near Pleneau-Island in Antarctica's Southern Ocean.
'The leopard seal is a sleek and violent hunter,' said Nachoum. 'He will ambush his prey by waiting in silence at the bottom of the shallow channels that run along the island.
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