Modern Australian

the year's best photos of landscapes and living things

  • Written by Cris Brack, Associate professor, Australian National University
the year's best photos of landscapes and living thingsDetail from Reed Plummer's photograph Surge, in which a breaking wave drops tons of water even as it pulls tons of sand from the sea bed.South Australian Museum

Nature. Some see it as beautiful and some as red “in tooth and claw”. Of course nature is dynamic, it changes between both the beautiful and the dangerous as in Blake’s...