Great to see all the photos that were entered in the New Zealand Biodiversity: Captured photo comp.
I was impressed that so many of my relatives had such star qualities (I thought it was just us kākāpō that did well in the limelight). There were photos with tui, fantails, albatrosses, heron, blue ducks, paradise ducks…and one that’s a reminder of how hard it can be to be a bird – a yellow-eyed penguin giving a dog a piece of its mind. And those are just the photos that featured my bird mates.
We had top-notch judges for the competition – Craig Potton, Kim Westerskov, and Norman Heke – and from what I understand they had a pretty hard job determining the winners.
Top winner was Mandy Hague’s photo of a heron with impeccable table manners eating a small shrimp.
Mandy Hague's winning photo - heron eating shrimp
Runner up was Dillon Anderson’s photo of a blue duck in mid stream.
Dillon Anderson's runner up photo - blue duck
Thanks to NZ National Commission for UNESCO, NIWA, and Forest & Bird sponsoring the photo comp with DOC. The photo comp was a great way to give NZ wildlife starring roles during International Year of Biodiversity.
Want to see the photos up close? They’re up at ZEALANDIA between now and 18 October 2010.
Yellow-eyed penguin, angler and dog – photo by Peter Langlands
And the winners are…
Overall Winner
Mandy Hague
Overall Runner-up
Dillon Anderson
Land and sky
Youth winners
1st place Merryn Giblin
2nd place Rawiri Milne
Adult winners
1st place Dillon Anderson
2nd place Jason Blair
Water
Youth winners
1st Emma Wilson
2nd Merryn Giblin
Adult winners
1st Mandy Hague
2nd Alison Perkins
People and biodiversity
Youth winners
1st Tikirau Hathaway
2nd Skye Kelly
Adult winners
1st Andy Maloney
2nd Peter Langlands
