Australia in Photos of the 2019 Natural Photography Competition Winners

Video: Australia in Photos of the 2019 Natural Photography Competition Winners

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

When talking about the nature of Australia, people most often think of kangaroos and huge insects. However, this mainland can surprise the unprepared tourist with its incredible beauty and amazing creatures, with which few people in other parts of the world are familiar. In the competition for the best nature photographer in Australia in 2019, for example, Mat Beatson won with a shot taken from a drone - on it in emerald water sharks circle around a dead huge whale.

Winner of competition

Whale at Cheney Beach. Photo: Mat Beetson

A total of 2,219 entries took part in this competition (2019 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year), and Mat Beatson's photograph was recognized as the best of them. This shot was taken very close to the shore - the whale was literally five meters from the sandy edge of the sea. “It was so amazing, unreal. We arrived at a peaceful coastal town and suddenly saw this huge whale at the very shore. And then we noticed in the water the tracks of the arriving sharks.

The South Australian Museum acted as a jury and sponsor of the awards. They explained their choice in favor of the whale photo that it was a unique shot. “For tens of years we have seen millions of photographs of nature, but we have never seen anything even approximately similar to this. It is unique, it is delightful, and it shows the incredible beauty of death."

Whales

Spiked

Usually crabs camouflage themselves with sponges and algae, which makes them very difficult to photograph, but this time the crab protected itself with the help of hydroid polyps. Photo: Ross Gudgeon

In action

The speckled marsupial marten bent to drink from the reservoir, in which the water is so calm that the reflection in it is almost indistinguishable from reality. Photo: Charles Davis

Australian echidna

“I followed this snide for two days,” says Charles Davis. - Her footprints in the snow led me through kilometers and kilometers from one fallen tree to another. When I finally caught up with her, I was already 2000 meters above sea level. And the echidna didn’t care about the abundance of snow and ice around”.

Opening

The photographer was looking for small seahorses, but in the end he found a new type of amphipod. Photo: Richard Smith

Petaurus breviceps

Sugar marsupial flying squirrel in the hollow of a tree in Kuma. Every night at exactly 20:28, the flying squirrel looks out of his shelter to make sure it is safe to get out. Photo: Charles Davis

Lakes Menindi

In 2016-2017, the Menindi lakes dried up due to prolonged drought in the region. On the site of the once beautiful lake, you can now see the bodies of dead local animals. Photo: Melissa Williams-Brown

Lingual

Varan Mertens spends most of his life in the water, and this lizard himself swam to the photographer, while he was watching other underwater inhabitants. Photo: Etienne Littlefair

Lightning

"For this composition, I decided to focus on the person at the water's edge to add more depth to the photograph." Photo: Floyd Mallon, 17 years old

Mother and child

Wombats (Vombatus ursinus). Photo: Charles Davis

Supernatural

After dusk, the mushrooms on the pine begin to glow green to attract insects that carry their spores. Photo: Marcia Riederer

Fox-shaped possum

To take this picture, the photographer lured the animal for a treat. Photo: Charles Davis

In the natural environment

Eastern gray kangaroo. Photo: Charles Davis

Dramatic

Huge waves crash on the shore during a flood. Photo: Neil Pritchard

Double frame

The photographer came across an amazing combination of honeycomb moray eel and textured brain coral in the Banda Sea, located in the Maluku Islands region of Indonesia. Photo: Tracey Jennings

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