Club focus on nature
By Ngoc Huynh and Innasa Reydiya, Year 12, Cairns State High School
CAIRNS State High School’s Environmental Club in July proposed a photography competition in the school community titled Raw Nature.
As the annual Environmental Awareness Day was coming up in August, we wanted to encourage everyone to take a step back and take a good look at the beautiful environment surrounding them.
Then they would capture inspiring photographs of the environment and enter them into the competition.
Our only requirement for each submission was that the image needed to totally reflect raw nature with no man-made objects allowed. BEAUTY: by Nung Dickinson, Year 12.
This year 42 submissions were received and three winning photos were chosen by our professional digital arts and photography teachers.
The winning photos feature GROUNDED: simple but spectacular views of the nature around us, from a fallen coconut from worm’s eye-view, the exploding sunset in shades of orange and yellow to water lilies stretching towards the sun. Entries were displayed on Environmental Awareness Day and received lots of compliments from all sectors of the school community. DURING the term four school holidays, I went to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo.
I went to Japan with my brother Aiden, 7, Mum and Dad.
We travelled Jetstar to Osaka. The flight was sevenand-a-half hours long.
In Osaka my favourite places were the Osaka ferris wheel, Osaka Aquarium, Osaka Castle and Universal Studios, Japan.
The Osaka ferris wheel is the largest ferris wheel in the world.
From up high you could see Universal Studios, bridges, buildings and many more things that were built in Osaka.
In Kyoto, my favourite places were the Golden Temple, Sagano Bamboo Forest and the Red Gates.
Kyoto is a more traditional city than Osaka or Tokyo.
Many women wear kimonos