TOP AUGUST PICKS: Sunday Times Lifestyle/Green Life Photographer of the Year
Times LIVE | 26 August, 2012 10:57
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Photograph by: Steven Morrow
TOP SHOT: STORMY COVE – Steven Morrow from Cape Town is our Green Life Photographer of the Month. He says he picked an unlucky autumn weekend for his camping trip to Arniston in the Western Cape because it rained almost constantly. It did, however, net him this brooding image of the area’s coast, plus R5 000 in cash, courtesy of the Sunday Times. He’s now also in the running to become the Green Life Photographer of the Year, to be announced in December. Congratulations!
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Photograph by: Jack Weinberg
COMMENDED – In pursuit of a fast meal, a jackal grabs at a pigeon. Captured in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
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Photograph by: Greg Lederle
COMMENDED – An elephant foot heaves through the water in Savuti, Botswana.
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Photograph by: Peet J van Eeden
COMMENDED – A basket star at a depth of 15 to 20m at Miller’s Point near Simon’s Town.
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Photograph by: Russell Maclaughlin
READERS’ CHOICE – As voted by Green Life’s fans on Facebook, August’s favourite reader photograph shows a buffalo and calf caught in the dust of a stampeding herd.
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Photograph by: Erich Kohrs
FLIGHT OF FANCY – This Egyptian goose was photographed on the morning of August 7 at the LC de Villiers Sports Grounds in Pretoria – the day South Africa’s administrative capital was recently blanketed in snow. “My fingers where numb because of the cold. After about an hour and a half the geese came flying in and landed on the grass next to the dam. That’s when I took my opportunity. When I viewed the photos I was elated,” the photographer, Erich Kohrs, recalls. “It had all the components I was looking for in my dream Egyptian goose shot.”
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Photograph by: Quintin Gilman
STILL WATERS – Stanford’s calm Klein River, perfectly reflecting the stunning surrounding landscape during an April sunrise.
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ALL ABOARD – “Early one evening I noticed a 5m string of processionary caterpillars making their way down a tree and onto the ground below in Marloth Park, just outside Kruger,” says the photographer, Grant Robertson. “They were joined by a thin strand of silk and being led to food by their leader.”
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Photograph by: Ronesh Parbhoo
Giraffes. File photo
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Photograph by: Alistair Swartz
PERFECT MOMENT – This image of a malachite kingfisher was taken in late-afternoon light on a farm outside Tzaneen, says the photographer, Alistair Swartz. “The late-afternoon sun brought out beautiful colours, and the soft light on the water created a fantastic clean background.”
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Photograph by: Trevor Sachs
WELL-EXPOSED LIGHTNING – Nature unleashes its fury over Sandton during a classic Highveld thunderstorm.
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Photograph by: Warren Joffe
ONCE IN A LIFETIME – Tswalu Private Game Reserve in the Kalahari, South Africa, is an excellent place to view pangolins – “although they are still very rare. We had just headed out for an afternoon game drive when this pangolin was spotted on the road. Huge excitement – over 20 years of visiting our national parks we had never seen one,” says Warren Joffe.
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Photograph by: Russell Maclaughlin
PREDATOR IN TRAINING – A caracal kitten, captured at Tshukudu Game Reserve near Hoedspruit by August’s Readers’ Choice photographer, Russell Maclaughlin.
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Photograph by: Johann Eybers
AIR AND GRACES – An African fish eagle swooping low over the Chobe River in Botswana.
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Photograph by: Stefan Graunke
HELLO PETAL – An unusual angle on a resplendent flower.
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Photograph by: Dale Morris
HOT DOGS – The wildlife on the Liuwa plain in Zambia had once been all but wiped out, according to Dale Morris, the photographer of this image. “With the help of the African Parks Network , everything is slowly coming back. We were very lucky to see these hunting dogs – with their numbers plummeting, they are becoming a rarer sight.”
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Photograph by: Hilton Kotze
RUNNING WILD – A herd of zebra on the hoof.
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Photograph by: Jack Weinberg
BREAKFAST ON THE WING – A bee-eater landing with a moth.
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Photograph by: Isak Pretorius
KID CAPERS – “It’s heaven for most predators during the annual wildebeest migration in the Maasai Mara Reserve. Food is plentiful and thus it's a great time to raise a litter,” according to Isak Pretorius, the photographer. “This particular morning mother and her cubs entertained us for a long time in golden early-morning light as they walked across the plains.”
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Photograph by: Steve Smith
BEWILDERMENT– A flock of queleas.
Since launching the Green Life Photographer of the Year Awards in April, each monthly winner has been recognised for capturing an incredible image of wildlife — a springbok herd under siege; a pied kingfisher posing with its catch; a leopard grooming her cub and a luminous compass jellyfish floating in False Bay.
But one photographer has portrayed a hauntingly beautiful part of our coastline with such mood and skill that we’re delighted to award August’s top honours to a landscape image – Steven Morrow’s gothic portrayal of a stormy ocean cove at Arniston, Western Cape. Morrow wins R5000 in cash courtesy of the Sunday Times.
For more details on the grand prizes at the end of the year, courtesy of Canon, visit www.facebook.com/stgreenlife and click on the “like” button at the top of the page.
The atypical, startling and plain extraordinary were also themes that ran through the rest of August’s top photographs.
