The slideshow above is a selection of winners from the 2023 competition.
These images formed part of the Judge’s Top 30.
Note: the software crops photos (especially portrait format).
The 2023 winners can be seen here, the Best Photographer Award selection of shots here and the Judge’s Top 30 here.
To view all the 2023 entries, see below.
To see all 228 entries click here. It’s a big file so it takes a while to load.
Once it opens, click on “Slide Show” (towards the top middle) and then “From Beginning”.
The slides are arranged by class and category, starting with Open class / Small Town, Big Country. Each change of class and category is marked by a transition slide.
Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to go back or move forward more quickly.
Next time you visit the Wandoan Cafe in the main street for a coffee or a snack check out the Judge’s Top 30 displayed on the back wall.
Thanks, Jo!
Once again, our heartfelt thanks to Senex.
Their continued sponsorship makes all of this possible.
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This year’s winners and runners up chose to showcase our local region in its finest form with sublime sunsets, nature’s best, young and old faces, harvesters, wind turbines, children playing, bucking bulls and stunning skies.
All of which made for a difficult job for judge Heidi Morris who was forced to make some tough decisions.
It was the Moree photographer’s first time judging the photography competition and she described it as one of her most challenging yet rewarding jobs to-date.
“The judging was a lot harder than I expected given the quality of the photos – I went over the entries so many times,” Heidi explained.
“The only way I could separate entries was to go away then come back with fresh eyes to review them again.”
Excerpt from May 2023 Window On Wandoan – J Cummins
We would like to sincerely thank everyone who entered this year’s Challenge, our Judge, Heidi Morris and previous co-ordinators, Helen and Ingolf who have done the hard yards in pulling together a wonderful competition.
We were blown away by the response in our first year as co-ordinators and are very much looking forward to 2024.
Thank you to Senex whose continuing generous sponsorship makes this all possible.
Until next year!
Leesa & Hope