Photo contest
The NSW Oyster Industry has been an iconic visual component of the NSW estuarine environment for over 140 years. In recent years many oyster industry images of historic significance have emerged from family archives that reinforce the key role that the oyster industry played in the development of NSW coastal communities. It is important that the NSW oyster industry photographic record, past, present, and future, be encouraged and preserved.
Open to
The NSW Oyster Industry Conference 2022 – Photography Contest Amateur category is open to all members of the NSW oyster industry, their family members and their employees, whilst the Professional category is open to the public.
Prizes
Two monetary prizes will be awarded in each category (6 in total).
Amateur - 1st prize per category
Professional - 1st prize per category
It’s a People’s Choice Award – Winners in each category will be determined by a tally of the votes at the conference (only one vote per person per category). Prizes will be presented at the Gala Dinner.
Categories
Category 1 – Portraits: entries in the portrait category may comprise close-up images of people, oysters or any other thing encounter in the day-to-day oyster farming activities.
Category 2 – Farming Activities: entries in the farming activities category may comprise images of day-to-day farming activities and must involve one or more individuals.
Category 3 – Oyster Farming and the Environment: entries in the oyster farming and the environment is a broad category that may include images of environmental interactions between oyster farming and the broader environment.
Rules
How to submit your photos and enter the photo contest:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Laura Stoltenberg on Laura@oceanwatch.org.au or call 0456935998
This photo contest is kindly sponsored by Australia's Oyster Coast.
Open to
The NSW Oyster Industry Conference 2022 – Photography Contest Amateur category is open to all members of the NSW oyster industry, their family members and their employees, whilst the Professional category is open to the public.
Prizes
Two monetary prizes will be awarded in each category (6 in total).
Amateur - 1st prize per category
Professional - 1st prize per category
It’s a People’s Choice Award – Winners in each category will be determined by a tally of the votes at the conference (only one vote per person per category). Prizes will be presented at the Gala Dinner.
Categories
Category 1 – Portraits: entries in the portrait category may comprise close-up images of people, oysters or any other thing encounter in the day-to-day oyster farming activities.
Category 2 – Farming Activities: entries in the farming activities category may comprise images of day-to-day farming activities and must involve one or more individuals.
Category 3 – Oyster Farming and the Environment: entries in the oyster farming and the environment is a broad category that may include images of environmental interactions between oyster farming and the broader environment.
Rules
- Images may be in color or a black and white format
- The entrant must have taken the photograph
- Entrants may only submit one image per category
- The conference committee reserves the right to recategorize or reject any entry based on content
- All entries (individual images) must be submitted electronically in a jpeg file format and must be no more than 5 megabytes in size
- The conference committee determination of the People’s Choice Award will be final
How to submit your photos and enter the photo contest:
- Email your photos to aquaculture.administration@dpi.nsw.gov.au by Sunday, 15th May
- Please indicate in your email whether you are an amateur or professional photographer (do you make any income from your photography)
- List the category(s) you are entering into (please note only one photo per category will be accepted)
- Please limit file size to 5MB
- Please indicate if you agree that your photos may be used by industry committees and organisations (e.g., OceanWatch Australia, the funder of the photo competition (Australia's Oyster Coast), NSW Farmer’s Association) to promote the interest of the NSW oyster industry (acknowledging authorship of any image used)
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Laura Stoltenberg on Laura@oceanwatch.org.au or call 0456935998
This photo contest is kindly sponsored by Australia's Oyster Coast.
Oyster leases in the Hastings River.
