BirdLife Photography is excited to announce the medal winners for our Photo Competitions held in 2022. Our competition Coordinator, Gary King, says:
Advanced Level was very close with 8 members within 5 points of the Gold Medal for the year. This bodes well for another exciting competition next year between our Advanced Level photographers. It is proposed that all the medal winners at Entry Level and Intermediate Level compete at higher levels in 2023. I would like to remind members that in the point-scoring, entrants receive one point for each competition they enter. This can make a difference if points are close towards the end of the year. Members should be wary of submitting two very similar images of the same species in the same competition. I made this mistake in the final competition this year with one image scoring 40 points and the other 15 points; if I had only submitted one image it is likely that most of the points would have gone to that image. Finally, I cannot emphasise enough the value of spending time in the field if you wish to improve your bird photography. Our Entry Level Gold Medallist for 2022, Amy Rakkusol, has only been photographing birds for a little over two years. Amy spends a lot of time in the field and her photographic development and results speak for themselves.
Advanced Level Competition
Gold medal – awarded to Mary Wheeler
Silver medal – awarded to Jason Moore
Bronze medal – awarded to Con Duyvestyn
Bronze medal – awarded to Peter Scholer
Intermediate Level Competition
Gold medal – awarded to Natalie Murray
Silver medal – awarded to Diana Womersley
Bronze medal – awarded to Jacob Crisp
Entry Level Competition
Gold medal – awarded to Amy Rakkusol
Silver medal – awarded to Indrani Pathirage
Bronze medal – awarded to Beverley Oliver
Bronze medal – awarded to Astrid Ross
Encouragement Awards
The BirdLife Photography Encouragement award is awarded to a member who shows a high level of improvement in the quality of photos submitted during the year in the Entry or the Intermediate level.
The committee and competition coordinator would like to congratulate our recipients of the award for 2022, Fran Solly and Sandra Lewis.
