The ever popular annual ANZANG Nature Photography exhibition is set to amaze audiences once again when it opens at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder on March 29, 2013.
WA Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder regional manager Zoe Scott said she is always delighted to host the exhibition, which celebrates the depth and diversity of nature in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea.
“ANZANG is enormously popular with Goldfields audiences and eagerly anticipated each year, I think because the images are so diverse, so colourful and just so magical,” Ms Scott said.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a landscape or the minute detail of an insect feeding on a plant or an animal, they are brilliant images. It’s always hard for me to choose my favourite.”
West Australian scuba diver Wayne Osborn won the overall $5000 prize for 2012 with his image of a squid school feeding mid-water in the planet’s most biodiverse marine region, Raja Ampat in Indonesia.
Judges said the image showed a natural phenomenon that is unlikely to be seen firsthand by the majority of the world’s population.
Other winners include people’s choice award winner Julie Fletcher from South Australia, for her haunting Graveyard image taken at Menindee Lakes in New South Wales.
The free exhibition, comprising nearly 100 images, will be on display at the Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder from 29 March – 1 June, 2013.
The ANZANG Nature Photography competition and exhibition is owned and run by the South Australian Museum.
Media contact:
Niki Comparti, Western Australian Museum
6552 7805, niki.comparti@museum.wa.gov.au
