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THE CHANNEL COUNTRY PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS!!

Vast Arts and Desert Channels Group are excited to officially announce the winners of the Channel Country Photography Competition, chosen from a field of over 200 entries.

OPEN SECTION

WINNER                   

Clare Mulcahy, Longreach             Image: “Yamma Yamma”

Prize - $3000 Exoma Energy, Wing Walk & Jet Tour Qantas Founders Museum, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

RUNNER UP             

Ruth Rickard, Longreach               Image: “Time to Get Going”

Prize - $500 Atlas Drilling, Jet Tour Qantas Founders Musuem, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

ENCOURAGEMENT  

Michelle Dean, Geelong                  Image: “Days End at Point”

Prize - Jet Tour Qantas Founders Museum, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

ENCOURAGEMENT  

Ruth Rickard, Longreach               Image: “Winton Light Show”

Prize – Jet Tour Qantas Founders Museum, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

REGIONAL & EMERGING SECTION

WINNER                   

Sally Cripps, Blackall                                  Image: “Crustacean Jewel”

Prize - $2000 Galilee Basin Haulage & Plant Hire, Wing Walk Qantas Founders Museum, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

RUNNER UP             

Lorraine Kath, Windorah               Image: “Road to Desert Island”

Prize - $250 Longreach Tree Trimming, Tour Package Kinnon & Co, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

RUNNER UP             

Lorraine Kath, Windorah               Image: “A View from Dean’s Lookout”

Prize - $250 Longreach Tree Trimming, Tour Package Kinnon & Co, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012

ENCOURAGEMENT  

Josh Finlay-Strong, Barcaldine     Image: “Fate”

Prize – Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership 2012 

YOUTH

WINNER                   

Thaddeus Poole, Longreach          Image: “Coolibah Under Sapphire Sky”

Prize - $1000 Exoma Energy, Wing Walk Qantas Founders Museum, Desert Channel Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership

RUNNER UP             

Emma Forsythe, Jundah                Image: “Green Frog”

Prize - $250 Exoma Energy, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership

ENCOURAGEMENT  

Thaddeus Poole, Longreach          Image: “The Way Home”

Prize – Tour Package Kinnon & Co, Desert Channels Group Calendar, Vast Arts Membership

PACKERS PRIZE

WINNER                   

Eric Peterson, Barcaldine              Image: “Lake Dunn at Sunset”

Prize - $250 Exoma Energy, Tour Package Kinnon & Co, Desert Channels Group

The competition sought photographers who captured the essence of the unique and wonderful scenery in the region interpreted through the lens of a camera!

“The aim of the competition was to encourage tourists, visitors and photographers from all around Australia to visit, and while here, to also try their hand at taking a photo that encapsulates the region,” said Miss Shelley Colvin, Project Officer for Vast Arts Inc.

All the entries are being digitally displayed at the Kinnon & Co Historic Ol’ World Gallery in Longreach. PLUS, the twelve Finalists of the competition will have their photographs printed in a Desert Channels Group 2012 calendar which will be available to purchase from the 3rd of October.

An official presentation will be held during October, with details to be announced shortly.

In the meantime, the winning images can be viewed in the Gallery on the Vast Arts website at www.vastarts.net and the Desert Channels Website at www.dcg.org.au.

Vast Arts and Desert Channels Group take this opportunity to congratulate the winners and entrants for submitting such high caliber photographs. A huge thank you also to our sponsors, who made the Channel Country Photography Competition possible with prizes that reflected the quality and standard of the section winners.

2012 will be even bigger and better!

Pictured: Open Winning Image 'Yamma Yamma' Clare Mulcahy, Longreach.

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