The Journey
Early this year I entered a couple of images into the ‘In My View‘ competition run by the West Australian Photographic Federation (WAPF). I was fortunate enough to have my image ‘Packsaddle Event’ selected in the top 20 images. It went on to take out 2nd place. As a result I took home $300 and a high gloss copy of the book. Please head on over to the WAPF website and take a read of the poem associated with my photo. It’s written from the horses’ perspective. Also take some time out to read the other stories. Warning!!! You may need tissues.
Thanks to my neighbour Brian and his horses, the stars of this image
This competition calls for photographers to enter their best/favourite images to suit the topic. This year being ‘We Are Australian’. From these images the judges choose their top 20 images. Writers are then invited to write a story or poem for one or more of the photographs of which one story for each photograph is selected.
The resultant body of work, 20 photographs with their accompanying story, are published in a book which are presented to the 40 finalists at the presentation night.
Next Year
This post will hopefully help to spread the word and encourage more participants to enter next year, either as a photographer or writer. Therefore ensuring the success of this competition for coming years. Next year’s topic is ‘Broken’ and with photo entries to be submitted within the first half of 2019. Plenty of time to get that entry ready.
If you’d like to see more images from the Best of the West Stockman Challenge please click here.