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Good Reading : February 2015
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COFFEE TABLE In 2003 a Perth surgeon, Stuart Miller, dreamed up the idea for the first ANZANG (Australian, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea) nature photography competition. In the intervening 12 years the competition has enjoyed enormous popular ity. And the great thing about it is that anyone – from professional photographers to weekend snappers – can take part. The places that the contributing photographers have captured in the book stretch from the steamy jungles of PNG down to the icy reaches of the Southern Ocean.You’ll see the breathtaking chiaroscuro of mountains in South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean, where expanses of dazzling, snowy blankness alternate with swathes of sheer grey rock. A beautiful green tree python twists around a tree and stares hypnotically at the camera. From a scampering numbat to the bulbous-eyed stare of a cute little cuscus in PNG, this book’s images will delight the eye, and it provides fascinating and instructive detail for photographers and lovers of the natural world. Wild Australasia: Celebrating 10 years of the ANZANG Photo Competition edited by Chrissie Goldrick is published by Australian Geographic, rrp $59.95. KOALA SHELTERING FROM THE WIND AND RAIN This section of forest at Cape Otway, on the south coast of Victoria, is one of the best places I know to see and photograph koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) – the gum vegetation is lush, the forest dense, and the trees relatively low. On this occasion we witnessed several unseasonal storm fronts and it was particularly cold. We spotted this koala looking rather miserable. Rather than get closer, I decided to frame him huddled among the trees, seeking protection from the rain but to no avail. Tom Putt, 2011
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