"Just one of those moments when it all comes together." That's Richard Robinson's explanation for how he captured his award-winning photograph of a Leopard anemone off the Poor Knight's Islands.
"I saw a dozen or so anemones floating in the blue and this one was so symmetrical. I drifted over slowly and fired off a frame before the water pressure pushed it away."
![ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR RUNNER-UP: SPAWNING JEWEL ANEMONES Richard Robinson](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/AFEKHT3PRK7LIT7FX4DMTTQPGY.jpg?auth=2507010633b13cc0c9cfdb01e0dcc705da73e9da9956c490a40f66cb08a31520&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Robinson, a former New Zealand Herald photographer, won the Animal Portrait section of the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year for the anemone picture and the Human Impact section for a rather harrowing picture of dead penguins, as well as being runner-up in the animal behaviour section, too.
![HUMAN IMPACT WINNER: THE WRECK OF THE PENGUINS by RIchard Robinson](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/Q73TXINBV2BGQHHCVO33SOLGZA.jpg?auth=9f3a65827c6ff633bdbe2292cbc67d3f7335e81c17cdc398f63afce5f1b589ca&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)