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Aerial View Of Whale And Calf Swimming · clip 2 of 3

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Wildlife
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About this clip

High-angle aerial footage captures a large whale and its calf swimming together in the open ocean. The pair moves slowly through the water, creating gentle ripples and small splashes on the surface. The water appears calm with a greenish-grey hue, suggesting a coastal environment. This cinematic drone shot offers a serene perspective of marine wildlife behavior, ideal for nature documentaries, environmental awareness campaigns, or travel content, or wildlife conservation projects.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for wildlife documentaries, conservation films, agency mood reels, and social edits that need an overhead view of a whale and calf moving through open water.
Edit role
Best as a short wildlife cutaway, transition, or quiet insert between broader ocean coverage and closer marine life behavior shots.
Visual details
A large whale and smaller calf are visible just below and at the surface of green-grey ocean water, with small white splashes, ripples, and no visible people.
Shot mechanics
High-angle drone composition looks straight down over open water, keeping the whale pair small in the frame with only ocean texture filling the foreground and background.

Tags

whalecalfoceanmarine lifewildlifedroneaerialswimmingwaterseanaturemammalmotherbabywildconservationdocumentarysurfaceripplescalm

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
68 MB
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

High-angle view of a whale and calf near the surface in green-grey ocean water, with faint ripples and no visible people.
The opening frame shows the whale pair small in the overhead ocean composition. (0:00)
The whale and calf remain close together beneath the rippled sea surface, with a pale calf shape visible beside the darker adult and no visible people.
This frame keeps the adult whale and calf together in a clean aerial wildlife view. (0:01)
Aerial frame with the whale pair partly submerged under textured green-grey water, with a small surface disturbance near the upper right and no visible people.
The animals are less distinct here, giving the clip a softer underwater silhouette moment. (0:02)
The whale and calf are visible through the water near a small patch of white turbulence, surrounded by open green-grey sea and no visible people.
This frame captures a brief surface splash as the whale pair moves through open water. (0:03)

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.