Winding off an epic weekend in the company of a cute and rather fascinating boy, we went to the SA Museum today as he hadn’t been and we were keen to check out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. There were some absolutely amazing shots, but of all of them The Storybook Wolf was the best. This was the winning shot, however when I did a little research today I found out that the photographer had been stripped of his win – apparently the judges are convinced that the shot was staged and that the wolf in question is from a nearby game farm and not a wild one as the winner had claimed.
This kinda took away a bit of the power that the shot has, but it was still my favourite due to the beauty of the shot and the lighting. I also liked this one of a deer with bracken stuck in its antlers, this one of a fishing boat in the South Pacific, this beautiful lemon shark, this chilled out lion and this spooky ice landscape to name but a few. I spent almost the entire time we were walking around from photo to photo saying ‘wow’, ’sheesh’ and ‘oh my god’ – mindboggling stuff indeed.
It really is well worth a visit, and will be running at Iziko until March so make a plan to get there this next month if you haven’t already checked it out!
