Winners of Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year

A psychedelic inside-out macro view of a cauliflower gentle coral has been named the winner of the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.

The {photograph} taken by Western Australian photographer Ross Gudgeon was captured within the waters of Lembeh Strait, off North Sulawesi, in Indonesia.

The coral is called for its attribute resemblance to a cauliflower, with quite a few small, rounded, bump-like polyps that give it a puffy texture.

Gudgeon was in a position to obtain the distinctive perspective through the use of a Nauticam prolonged macro vast lens (EMWL), an underwater model of the probe or insect eye lens.

For his achievement, Gudgeon obtained the general winner’s prize of $6,530 (10,000AUD) and a cruise with Coral Expeditions. Winners within the competitors’s 10 classes additionally obtained $980 (1,500AUD) every.

Animals in Nature

Threatened Species

Our Impact

Astrophotography

Landscape

Monochrome

Aerial

Macro

The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competitors is produced by the South Australian Museum. An exhibition will run on the South Australian Museum till February 1, 2026.

The exhibition will even go on show on the Australian Museum in Sydney from October 25, 2025, to February 15, 2026. The full gallery of images from this yr’s competitors could be discovered here.