2023 Photography Competition
Thank you to all participants for their excellent submissions!
Congratulations to those who placed first, second and third, and to the highly commended entries. Please check out the gallery below exhibiting all of the wonderful submissions.
Friends of Mason Park Wetland Inc has the right to use all submitted images, but copyright belongs to the photographers. If you wish to use any images, please contact us by email and we will connect you with the copyright holders.
1st Place
Lennis Lin
Rare Visitor
An excellently captured portrait of the Brown Honeyeater, the rare visitor, indicating the Wetlands’ sustainability of diverse species. The photo has good composition, beautiful colours and sharpness, with details such as pollen on its beak, showing the honeyeater feeds on the nectar of Chilean jessamine flowers.
THE WINNERS
2nd Place
Johnny Choi
Busy Mom
An excellent action/behaviour shot of Magpie Lark feeding its chicks, telling that the woodland environment has plenty of their food, e.g., worms and insects. It's a pity that the focus is on the leaves instead of the chicks. Compositionally, there is perhaps too much space on the left and right sides.
3rd Place
Vincent Sammartino
Superb Fairy Wren
An excellent portrait, technically and artistically. Sharp in focus, nice catch of light in the eye, good composition and beautiful yellow background in bokeh. Unfortunately, however, the image size slightly exceeded the rules for the competition..
In Nature
Jonathon Gu
Triple Teals
An exquisite portrait of three Chestnut Teals technically and artistically – sharp in focus, excellent composition, lovely light, colour, exposure, and reflection. The thin strands of grass on their beaks tell what they eat and the environment in which they live.
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Technical Excellence
Jonathon Gu
Spoonbill Portrait
An excellently captured close-up portrait of a Royal Spoonbill with a very good depth of field – sharpness from the water droplet at the tip of the beak to the top of the long beak. The eyes are a little soft due to trading off with the lovely background bokeh.
Creative Originality
Julius Doroy
Light Bridge
A creative photo with originality, having a different non-wildlife subject. It has been handled technically well without blowing out the illuminated bridge while revealing the details in the shadowed surroundings. The author made an effort to go out to show the Wetlands’ environment at night time.
In Documentary
Phil Cargill
Dry Wetland
This photo is an excellent documentary, giving us a strong message of how fragile the Wetlands' environment is. It tells us the careful and skilful management of the Wetland ecosystem is vital for its conservation.
