I always experience a sense of excitement whenever I see dolphins swimming alongside any vessel that I am on. I have seen them many times over the years particularly when I was at sea in the 1960's. Almost universally, I have not been fast enough to photograph them, have ended up with blurry images, or they have been too far away. This image was one of my few successes but it still required cropping and digital enhancement to achieve reasonable image quality. I have absolutely no idea as to the type of dolphin photographed. The image was captured in September 2006 in the Sea of Marmara close to the Turkish Capital of Istanbul.