| Thanks to all of our alumni who submitted outstanding photos to this years Alumni Photo Contest. It was a difficult choice but after much deliberation we are pleased to announce the winners and honorable mentions. The top three photos in this years photo contest were chosen by Kerala Goodkin, Editor in Chief of Glimpse Magazine. Kerala's comments about each picture are in italics. And the winners are: 
1st Place - Tarin Coulas "Sheep Traffic Jam" Hope College Victoria University of Wellington February 2007 On message and composition - this photographer is the clear winner. The choice to focus the image around the point at which the flock meets the horizon rather than around the vehicle brilliantly represents a key cultural element of New Zealand Culture - the sheep to human ratio.The composition of the photo, with a dominant sky and distant horizon line adds to the viewer's ability to perceive the absurdity of this situation. The shadows of the sheep cast by the setting sun, when combined with the striping of the highway in the foreground, creates a brilliant series of right angles that draw the eye deeper into the photo.
 2nd Place - Wes Boettner "Tree at Lake McKenzie" Queensland University of Technology University of Akron February 2007
This photographer displays the power of the cool palette - a difficult series of colors to balance while maintaining depth. While there is no element in the photo which visibly ties it to a specific culture, the singular dominance of the tree set against a field of water is strikingly representative of an island - which is, above most others, a dominant geographic and cultural factor of life in Australia, New Zealand or the South Pacific.
 3rd Place - Whitney Boyce "Stars over Uluru" Griffith University - Brisbane Texas Tech University February 2007 Long Exposure shots rarely make it to the top of photo contest lists - In these photos colors often lose their brilliance and objects in the foreground are difficult to keep in focus. Here, the desert tones of the central Australian outback pleasantly tinge the sky, the bush and the rock. The message of this image makes it a winner. While time -as the stars in this photo-moves constantly forward, tradition - as represented here by the rock - can hold its ground.
Congratulations to all of our winners who will receive some AustraLearn Gear for submitting the winning photos. View all submissions View Honorable Mentions |