/ 2025 / Nature / Wildlife

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Gerardine Gannon, Australia
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The White Bellied Sea Eagle is a powerful predator. As light fades, it can surprise its prey and is swift to attack, then return quickly to its hiding spot in the trees at dusk. I was on a boat on the remote coast of the Kimberley, in northern Western Australia, when I just caught this soaring eagle after sunset with its stunned prey caught in its claws.

I grew up on a farm in Australia, where I often witnessed the power of nature, both the good and the bad. I sometimes had mixed feelings that nature could be both beautiful and brutal at the same time, but it always left me in awe.
I then came to Melbourne where I worked as a designer but was interested in photography from early on. I see patterns, lines, colours and shapes that change in different lights and I take shots to forever set a place card in my memory.

Awards 2024 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Gold Winner -Press/ Nature/ Environmental

2024 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Honorable Mention – Nature/ Landscape

2024 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Honorable Mention - Nature/ Sunrise/Sunset

2024 IPA International Photography Awards 2nd Prize subcategory winner -Events/ Wedding

2024 IPA International Photography Awards 3rd Prize subcategory winner - Nature

2024 IPA International Photography Awards Juror’s Top 5

2024 International Color Awards Honorable Mention -Nature

2024 International Color Awards Honorable Mention -Silhouette

2024 APP Australian Photographic Prize Highly Commended 1

2024 APP Australian Photographic Prize Highly Commended 2

2018 Lake Macquarie National Exhibition of Digital Photography Honourable Mention