C.ex Coffs Camera Club Nature Photography Competition open for entries
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With no shortage of incredible scenes to shoot on the Coffs Coast, there should be plenty of entries in the region’s premier nature photography competition.
Entries are being sought for the 17th annual C.ex Coffs Camera Club Nature Photography Competition which will provide an opportunity for local photographers to have their work displayed in the redeveloped National Cartoon Gallery throughout October.
Past winner and competition co-ordinator Michael Woltschenko said the event began 19 years ago and was originally named after renowned local photographer Marnie Yeates.
Mr Woltschenko said it was an “exciting” opportunity for local photographers to have their work framed and displayed in a national gallery.
He said the key to a great nature photo was capturing that “split second” of drama.
“Basically you are trying to tell a story with your image and capturing an aspect of nature that happened in a flick of a moment,” he said.
“A bird catching a fish or a dramatic sunset over a beautiful landscape – a sense of drama.”
More than $700 in prizes are up for grabs for the best images entered by locals with a love of shooting all things natural including landscapes, seascapes, animals, insects and plants.
The competition is open to non-professional photographers who live between Grafton and Scotts Head and all the way west to Dorrigo.
Entries close on September 10 and cost $20 per photographer (two photos) and $10 for students.
The exhibition opens at the National Cartoon Gallery on October 8 and runs until October 31. For more information visit www.cexcameraclub.weebly.com.
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