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Daniel Metcalfe was commended as a runner-up for his image of a resprouting pink bloodwood tree among blady grass stalks following a forest fire.

Daniel Metcalfe was commended as a runner up for his image of a resprouting pink bloodwood tree amongst blady grass stalks following a forest fire.

It was situated in a natural, symmetrical clearing, a circus hemmed in by sullen vegetation, and upon which no plant save blady grass ever invaded.

Beyond the entanglement of the beach scrub the way was open, though rough, with granite boulders half hidden among rampant blady grass.

The sound again—merely the mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.