Mark Waddington takes out New Zealand’s largest amateur photography comp
Our sister publication D-Photo recently announced the winners of its annual Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year competition. A massive 5373 images were entered across the nine categories that the competition featured this year, and the total prize pool was valued at over $16K — a record. This year’s overall winner was Mark Waddington, with his Aerial entry (shown above).
The category winners are detailed following.
Aerial category (sponsored by DJI Drones):
• First: Mark Waddington
• Second: Susan Blick
• Third: David Bowie
Creative category (sponsored by White Studios):
• First: David Steer
• Second: John Melville
• Third: Logan Hermanns
Junior category (sponsored by UCOL):
• First: Yuto Matsuda
• Second: Ivan Steenkamp
• Third: Yuto Matsuda
Landscape category (sponsored by Progear):
• First: Kane Hartill
• Second: Nicola Pye
• Third: Rowena Richards
Macro category (sponsored by Tamron):
• First: Chris Helliwell
• Second: Roy Cernohorsky
• Third: Roxanne Crawford
Monochrome category (sponsored by Ilford Papers):
• First: Louise Savage
• Second: Roy Cernohorsky
• Third: Matt Corbett
Nature category (sponsored by Vanguard):
• First: Rob Lynch
• Second: Edin Whitehead
• Third: Sam Wales People category (sponsored by Profoto):
• First: Kim Falconer
• Second: Craig Powley
• Third: Abe Mora
Travel category (sponsored by Nikon):
• First: Shelley Eccleton
• Second: Martin Kohn
• Third: Tony Whitehead
A new Readers Choice category was introduced this year, with those who visited the category galleries able to vote for their favourite images. The winner of this year’s Readers Choice award was Dennis Brown, with Rory Gannaway in second place and Ocean Belcher in third.