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BAMOS Dec 2020
Image of Melbourn international photo
Melissa Lyne
In December , an image of two widowed penguins overlooking Melbourne ’ s city lights won the Community Choice Award in the 2020
Ocean Photography Awards .
Tobias Baumgaertner is a German wildlife photographer who
studied marine science at James Cook University .
He spent three nights with the Fairy penguin colony in St Kilda in 2019 , with the intention of capturing an image to show the pressures human development can have on wild animal populations .
" This image is so much more ," Tobias said . " It communicates togetherness and love ."
He says a volunteer told him that the white penguin was an elderly female who had lost her partner — and so had the younger male on the left .
Two fairy penguins in Melbourne are the subject of an international ocean photography prize . Photographer Tobias Baumgaertner has made this image available as a print from his website :
www . tobiasvisuals . com