Photocompetition 2018 - early reminder
The Atlas of Life Photocompetition will run again this year, providing a showcase for your favourite nature images – and a chance to win great prizes. It's still a few months before we call for entries, but it's never to early to start choosing your best images of 2018.
Entries will be taken from 1st September 2018, with winners announced in early November.
These images from last year are a reminder of the wonderful natural environment we share, and the superb talent and observation skills of Atlas of Life contributors.
Newly fledged Little Terns in action at Mogareeka.
Photographer: Leo Berzins
Birds: Third place (tied)
Photograph taken at night of a beautiful Garden Orb Spider.
Photographer: Tess Poyner
Invertebrates: First place
Driving past the Merimbula Lake one cloudless & blue-skied morning, I brought my car to a near screeching halt when I spied this little flock of Spoonbills reflecting beautifully on the glassy water. In this pic they had just settled themselves down, then each placed their head beneath a wing for a mid-morning snooze, which also made a very cute image!
Photographer: Toni Ward
Overall: First place
Birds: First place
Eastern Grey Kangaroo running across the lagoon in the morning mist. Photograph taken in Tanja.
Photographer: Tess Poyner
Overall: Second place
Terrestrial vertebrates: First place
Close up of a water dragon
Photographer: Georgia Poyner
Terrestrial vertebrates: Third place
Curlew Sandpipers at Mogareeka. A small flock of these critically endangered birds visited Mogareeka for a few days last November.
Photographer: Leo Berzins
Birds: Second Place (tied)
A super cute, fluffy seal pup.
Photographer: Georgia Poyner
Overall: Third place
Marine & Intertidal: First place
Orange Caterpillar Parasite Wasp photographed while on a bush walk.
Photographer: Tess Poyner
Invertebrates: Third place
Note: although often confused with wasps, this is extraordinary insect is actually a lacewing (Order: Neuroptera)
Beach Stone-curlew at Spencer Park, Merimbula. These birds are Critically Endangered in NSW and are rarely seen this far south.
Photographer: Leo Berzins
Birds: Third place (tied)
A pair of Common Dolphins surfacing to take a breath.
Photographer: Georgia Poyner
Marine & Intertidal: Third place (tied)
A young diamond python curled up on a rock before the sunrise
Photographer: Harrison Warne
Terrestrial Vertebrates: Second place
A Double-banded Plover enjoying a morning wing-stretch at Mogareeka.
Photographer: Leo Berzins
Birds: Second place (tied)
Humpback whale breaching off the coast of Eden
Photographer: David Rogers
Marine & Intertidal: Second place
I almost missed this amazing creature. Centipedes have only one pair of legs per body segment (while millipedes have two).
Photographer: Jakob Poyner
Invertebrates: Second place