Take your shot and be in to win a top Canon camera
The hugely popular Herald summer photo competition is back, with three great Canon cameras to be won. Photo editor
explains how to enter and recalls some of our previous winners.
Summer is a time for holidays and fun, a time when memories are made that will last a lifetime. And those memories linger for longer with a photo or two.
The New Zealand Herald has once again teamed up with Canon for the annual Summer Holiday Photo Competition, encouraging you to share your memories for the chance to win one of three cameras.
You can enter now at nzherald. co. nz/ photocomp.
The competition has gone from strength to strength with about 200 entries received in the inaugural contest in 2002 to over 4000 in recent years.
Many of those winning memories are of Kiwis having fun around the water enjoying the best of times and the best of weather.
That first winning entry, by Debbie Bell of Mt Eden, showed her husband and three boys paddling at Whangamata ¯ in a classic summer holiday shot.
Last summer’s winner, the 21st award, featured kids on the water again. But the weather wasn’t so hot last year, as many of us will recall, and the competition’s best picture told a different story. “We were cracking up when we looked at this picture,” said winning photographer Simeon Houtman. “[ the kids] wanted to go fishing and when we rowed out it was raining, and the wind picked up. The kids were not really into it at that point.”
Houtman’s photograph shows his brother, William, and twins Furio and Dulcie on their first fishing experience together. But it’s raining and the kids are looking cold and miserable.
“This is a real moment to treasure,” competition judge and Herald chief photographer Dean Purcell reckoned.
“The first time fishing is a classic picture that most Kiwi kids will have in their album. This one is made even more special by the slightly comical situation of terrible weather, the kids looking grumpy, but dad is still smiling, trying to put a brave face on it all. It’s just an outstanding photograph.”
Houtman’s picture is one of thousands sent in over the years and it’s always hard to pick a winner.
We expect this year will be no different and look forward over the coming weeks to seeing how you, our readers, are enjoying making summer memories. Best of luck.