A photographer says a chance encounter of a fiery clash between two wild horses in the NSW Snowy Mountains was the most “amazing thing to witness”.
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Photographer Michelle Brown says the fight was the stallion’s way of marking territory
She says it was “a gentleman’s chat” between the brumbies
The video shared on social media has amassed thousands of views
Michelle Brown is a Cooma-based photographer who has been taking images of brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park for the past decade.
Although she has seen the creatures fight before, the most recent exchange between two stallions near Kiandra…
Professional photographers and would-be photographers will have the opportunity to take a picture of the first blue supermoon of the year on Wednesday night, which is also the last one until 2037.
Before people whip out their cellphones, or better yet, their fancy DSLRs, to take a picture of this rare blue supermoon, they should know exactly what they’re trying to capture.
The moon will be what NASA calls a “trifecta of labels,” as it will be a full moon, a supermoon and a blue moon.
A blue moon refers to the second time a full moon appears during the…
A photo of a golden horseshoe crab —one of the world’s most ancient and highly endangered animals— earned a marine photographer the grand title in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. The Natural History Museum in London, which runs the competition, made the announcement Tuesday.
The picture, taken by Laurent Ballesta, shows a tri-spine horseshoe crab on a seabed near Pangatalan Island in the Philippines, as it is followed by three golden trevallies. Ballesta documented the horseshoe crabs as they moved through water, fed, mated and provided a home to other animals, according to the museum.
The Wildlife…
