ANZANG and other competitions – 2013 review

One of my goals for 2013 was to enter a few photographic competitions. My most exciting result so far has been to achieve a Highly Commended for this image in the 2013 ANZANG competition, organised by the South Australian museum and celebrating the diversity of nature in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea. I received a beautiful book with all the finalists’ images in, and am looking forward to the exhibition coming to Perth some time next year.

Another result I was happy with was being selected as a finalist in the Mono (West Australian Architecture) section of Clickwest, a competition organised by the WA Photographic Federation. At the awards night, all the finalist’s images were shown on a big movie screen, which was pretty awesome. We also each received another lovely book of images. My image was taken in the chapel of St Michael the Archangel in Leederville – the surrounding buildings were a convent but are now the head office of the Catholic Education Office.

I entered a few images in two other competitions – the International Loupe Awards and the Better Photography Photograph of the Year 2013 – mainly for feedback, as if your image meets a certain standard you are awarded Bronze, Silver or Gold certificates. If you are lucky, you get a few comments from the judges about where you can improve. The monthly competitions at my camera club have been an awesome source of feedback and learning, as you get to hear the judge’s comments on all the images, not just your own. It makes you realise too how subjectively we view images, as each judge has a unique perspective. I was pretty happy with coming 6th overall in the club for the year, and getting two second placings in the end of year print competition.

A print of this image came second in Colour prints at the NEPG end of year competition.

Taken in Kruger in July 2013 – came second in Mono prints in NEPG end of year competition.

This image scored 83 in Amateur illustrative with a big score range (94/84/70) – would have been interesting to see how it went in the Science & Nature but I couldn’t afford to pay for more Open entries.

Orangutan photographed at the zoo – score of 83 in Loupe Awards, with range from 70 to 95.

Scored 84 in the Loupe awards, with the most consistent scoring of all my images entered. Squeaked into the top 50 of the Science and Nature section at number 47.

A young kangaroo captured at Pinnaroo Memorial park. This image also did well at camera club, winning the Mono prints in February.

This image of a pelican’s foot also did well in the WAPF interclub comp, coming 4th in Mono prints.

This was taken at sunrise on a morning when the sun didn’t really make an appearance, whilst on a camera club weekend away. We had no luck with the sunrises for three mornings in a row! So I decided to process it as a black and white to suit the name of the lake (really an old coal mine pit lake).

This image also did well in the WAPF interclub competition, coming 4th in Colour prints.

Experimenting with motion, an image of my daughter playing the viola. I was pleased to get a bronze for this, as it is not my usual genre.