Deadline: 15 September 2024
The Northern Beaches Council is calling all photographers, swimmers, snorkellers and divers to get creative by entering this year’s Underwater Photography Competition as part of their Ocean Festival.
This year Northern Beaches Council are delighted to announce that they have a new major award and trophy ‘The Valerie Taylor Underwater Photography Award for Excellence’ 2024.
Categories
- Categories include:
- Behavior: Capturing natural behavior of marine life.
- Macro: Getting up close to your subject matter.
- Threated Species: Portraying the vulnerability of a threatened species found in the Northern Beaches Aquatic Reserves e.g. Black Rod Cod, Grey Nurse Shark, Green Turtle.
- Human Connection: Capturing the connection between a persons and marine life (flora / fauna / mega fauna), positive or negative. This could include monitoring citizen science projects or research undertaken in one of their Northern Beaches aquatic reserves.
- Seascapes: Capturing the raw beauty of the underwater vista in one of the Northern Beaches aquatic reserves.
- Youth: For the budding young photographers aged 12 to 17 years old. The winner will be recognised as the Underwater Youth Photographer of the Year 2024.
- Reels (Love your Locals): Capturing the wonder of the biodiversity in the underwater world.
- Youth (12 – 17 years)
- Open (18+ years)
- People’s Choice: Voted online by the public.
Award Information
- A prize pool of $4,000, participants are invited to submit their underwater images from one of the 5 aquatic reserves on the Northern Beaches.
Eligibility Criteria
- There is a limit of 3 entries per photographer. Plus 1 reel only, if applicable.
- All entries must be the original work of the entrant and produced during the period of 1 January 15 September 2024.
- Entrants of the Youth category must be aged 12 – 17 years on 15 September 2024.
- Those 18 years and under must have a parent or guardian consent.
- Images and Reels entered must not have been judged as a first placed winner in another major photography competition within the last 12 months prior to 15 September 2024.
- Employees of Northern Beaches Council (the competition organizer) are not permitted to enter the exhibition. Children of Northern Beaches Council employees are permitted to enter.
For more information, visit Northern Beaches Council.
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