In Pursuit of Whales: An Accidental Obsession by Wayne Osborn
In Pursuit of Whales documents a 15 year photographic journey by Pam and Wayne Osborn following their passion for whale conservation. Images are from the Azores, Western Australia, The Great Barrier Reef, The Arctic Circle, Tonga and the Banda Sea.
Species in the book include sperm whales, sei whales, blue whales, Bryde’s whales, humpback whales, minke whales, pilot whales, orcas and dolphins. Underwater and topside images are represented.
ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn
Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."
