Australian Geographic - 09.2019 - 10.2019

72 Australian Geographic

THE WATERING

HOLE

Melissa Williams-Brown,
South Australia

The Menindee Lakes were deliber-
ately drained in 2016–17 and
New South Wales has experienced a
lengthy drought. Animals and birds
desperately seek food and water and
there is very little left due to these
human-made and natural events.
Lake Cawndilla is now just a drying
lakebed scattered with the remains
of our native animals.

Cawndilla Creek, Menindee,
New South Wales
DJI Phantom 3 Advanced,
20mm, 1/640, f/2.8, ISO 200,
ND4 filter

END OF THE LINE

David Stowe, New South Wales

EASTERN QUOLL,

DASYURUS VIVERRINUS

Country roads + speed × darkness

= the end of the line. And not only

for this poor eastern quoll, but for

so many other native mammals

across our country. In places like

Bruny Island, more needs to be

done to limit drivers’ speed at night.

Too many animals lose their lives

every night, not only to speed, but

carelessness, and, even more sadly,

wanton cruelty.

Bruny Island, Tasmania

Canon 5D Mk IV, EF 16–35mm

f/4 L IS, 1/100, f/8, ISO 640,

Canon 600RT-EX flash

(off camera), additional fill

light with Wolf Eyes torch,

handheld

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THE GHOST OF

THE FOREST

Marcia Riederer, Victoria

GHOST FUNGUS,

OMPHALOTUS NIDIFORMIS

The elusive ghost mushroom show

starts after dark, when the green

light of its bioluminescence glows

across the pine forest on the

Bellarine Peninsula. It seems like

magic but the glowing works to

attract insects that then help

disperse the spores and spread

the mushroom.

Ocean Grove, Victoria

Canon 5D Mk IV, Samyang

14mm, 30, f/2.8, ISO 3200,

Manfrotto tripod

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PANDANI AT

LAKE OBERON

Jarrod Castaing,

New South Wales

PANDANI,

RICHEA PANDANIFOLIA

Found only in Tasmania, wild

tropical-like pandani are illumi-

nated at sunrise. They’re set against

the stunning backdrop of Lake

Oberon and Mt Pegasus, along the

rugged Western Arthur Range, in

Tasmania’s south-west wilderness.

Western Arthurs, Southwest

National Park, Tasmania

Canon 5D Mk IV, Canon

16–35mm f/2.8 L 16mm,

1/60, f/11, ISO 200,

Feisol CT-3441 tripod

Botanical

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