I spent the day yesterday roaming the calm, seemingly haunted halls of the Cape Town Museum. With the welcoming splash of cooling airconditioning on one of Cape Town’s hottest days of the year, I found myself lost within the museum walls for hours.

This was no random trip to the museum though, for I was there to view the absolutely breathe-taking images from the most recent Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. As I moved from one image to the next my amazement and appreciation grew. The images are absolutely incredible.

Some stir up a feeling of complete calm while others make you gasp at how close the photographer was to being eaten! haha!
All of the photographs gave me a sense of how truely beautiful the world we live in really is.

Each photograph is displayed on a large ‘light table’ frame on the wall giving the whole exhibition a really lovely feel.

While sitting in the gardens having lunch after our visit, I was asked to pick my favorite and I simply couldn’t.

Take a day a few hours out of your day and visit the museum, it is definitly worth it. Something you will regret missing.

R15 per adult. Open 10am to 5pm, the exhibition ends on the 13th March 2010.
Contact: Tel: 021 422 0023, Iziko South African Museum, Company Gardens

photo-of-the-year
 

note: this year, after the winner was announced, it came to the judges attention that the photographer had ‘rented a model animal’ for the shot. Using tame animals is obviously not allowed and the winner was therefor disqualified (The Storybook Wolf) and no new winner will be annouced.