Photographic Competition

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New Zealand Alpine Club

Photographic Competition

The 2011 NZAC Photographic Competition is proudly sponsored by Marmot, Scarpa, Alpine Recreation and Imagelab. These organisations provided awesome prizes this year, to the value of $6,000.

2011 Competition Results

Alpine General (AG)

• Honours: Starry night, John Doogan
• Honours: Jobo Rabzang, Brad Jackson
• Honours: Sagarmatha storm, Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Himalayan light, Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Adelaide basin, Jason Blair
• Acceptance: The Waimakariri from high, John Doogan
• Acceptance: Wet tussock bashing in Fiordland, Karl Iremonger
• Acceptance: A glowing descent, Marty Schmidt
• Acceptance: Climbing to Mt Cook, Michal Karnik
• Acceptance: Andes mountians rise behind the Bolivian Salt Plains, Mo Laurie
• Acceptance: Torridon from Liatach (Scotland), Mo Laurie
• Acceptance: Kapakapanui mist, Sarah Milicich
• Acceptance: Chamonix sunrise, Steve Eastwood

Alpine Activity (AA)

• Guide Alack Challenge Cup, Champion: Tree skiing, BC Canada, Kevin Boekholt
• Acceptance: Tail wind on the Tasman, Adrian Camm
• Acceptance: Speck, Kester Brown
• Acceptance: Descending fixed wire, Gertrude Valley, John Barkla
• Acceptance: The tooler, Mathew Farrell
• Acceptance: Spring, Mike Rowe

Alpine Nature (AN)

• John Harrison and Erica Beuzenberg Memorial Trophies,
  Champion: Arctic aerial abstract, Andrew Peacock
• Honours: Grand skink basking in sun, John Barkla
• Honours: Winter coats, Thomas MacTavish
• Honours: Pricks, Troy Mattingley
• Acceptance: NZ kea checks its reflection, Zak Shaw
• Acceptance: NZ kea full wing span, Zak Shaw
• Acceptance: Aciphylla crosby-smithii, Mt Burns, John Barkla

Rockclimbing (RC)

• Champion: Komakino, John Palmer
• Honours: Psyche, Troy Mattingley
• Honours: The microchip, Mathew Farrell
• Acceptance: Crossing hands, Derek Cheng
• Acceptance: Psyche, Derek Thatcher
• Acceptance: Uno, Jason Blair
• Acceptance: Flock air, John Palmer
• Acceptance: Tiny hold, Kester Brown

Humour (HM)

• Acceptance: Tama & Dad, Craig Jeffries
• Acceptance: Unidentified club member executes perfect turn, Nicholas Shearer

Photojournalism (PJ)

• Honours: Ode to a porter, Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Kilimanjaro choir, Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Khumbu cough, Peter Laurenson
• Acceptance: Rupee for your thoughts, Peter Laurenson
• Acceptance: Second worse bivvy ever, Mathew Farrell

Youth (YO)

• Acceptance: A Taranaki sunrise, Joshua Taylor

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Previous competitions

2010 NZAC Photocompetition Results

Alpine General (AG)

• John Harrison Memorial Trophy, Champion: Evening light on Dundas ridge, Richard Davies
• Honours: Summit, Mt Ngauruhoe, Richard Young
• Acceptance: Tanzawa range from the summit of Mt Fuji, Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Good Morning Malaysia, Nicolas Barth

Alpine Activity (AA)

• Honours: Lionel Clay getting into Hot Water at Wye Creek, Hugh Barnard
• Honours: Aaron Ford hitting hard the Wye Creek ice, guillaume charton
• Acceptance: Sifting, David Poulsen
• Acceptance: Aaron Ford between a rock and fragile ice sending Grey Power, M8, in Wye Creek, Guillaume Charton
• Acceptance: Triumph on a virgin peak, Gemma Woldendorp

Alpine Nature (AN)

• Erica Beuzenberg Trophy, Champion: Up close and personal - fledgling NZ falcon, Donna Falconer
• Honours: Alien landing site ..., Jochen Bind
• Acceptance: Horny short-horned grasshoppers, Nina Dickerhof
• Acceptance: Ranunculus lyalli and West Matukituki Valley, John Barkla
• Acceptance: Alpine Light, Richard Young
• Acceptance: Adélie penguin in evening light, Katja Riedel
• Acceptance: Fog on Fox, Lindsay Froggatt
• Acceptance: Natural Sculpture, Hooker Lake, Tony Rac
• Acceptance: Eisriesenwelt, Sarah Milicich
• Acceptance: NZ falcon in attack mode, Donna Falconer
• Acceptance: Untitled, Gemma Woldendorp

Rockclimbing (RC)

• John Harrison Memorial Trophy, Champion: Back Three, John Palmer
• Honours: Monster Society of Evil, James Morris
• Acceptance: Flash Harry, John Palmer
• Acceptance: Scylla, John Palmer
• Acceptance: Leap or plunge?, Stein Tronstad
• Acceptance: Liquidous Line , James Morris

Humour (HM)

• Acceptance: Priorities, Nina Dickerhof
• Acceptance: Alpinus Palmae, David Poulsen
• Acceptance: Bouldering in the rock, Wouter van Beerschoten

Photojournalism (PJ)

• Acceptance: Wakhi woman milking a yak, Jack Mace
• Acceptance: Rescue off Franz Josef Glacier, Martin London

Youth (YO)

• Champion: The Lost Valley, Claire Lang
• Acceptance: In the Valley of the Shadow of Doubt, Claire Lang

View all 2010 winners.

2009 NZAC Photocompetition Results

Overall Champion

• Grandness, Anthony Rac (Harrison Memorial Trophy)

Alpine General

• Champion: Grandness, Anthony Rac
• Honours: Moonrise, Ama Dablam, Andrew Peacock
• Honours: Changeable weather, Kahurangi, John Doogan
• Honours: Land shaped by nature, Christopher Morton
• Honours: Fitz Roy Range, Kester Brown
• Acceptance: Looking towards Lake Lyndon, John Doogan
• Acceptance: View of the Torlesse Range, John Doogan
• Acceptance: Kahurangi, high camp, John Doogan
• Acceptance: Amadablam silouette, Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Fyffe Hut, John Doogan

Alpine Activity

• Champion: Tree skiing, British Columbia, Kevin Boekolt (Guide Alack Challenge Cup)
• Acceptance: High on Cook, Anthony Rac
• Accceptance: Hut day, Gerard Smith
• Acceptance: Navigating the Franz, Shane Orchard
• Acceptance: North Shoulder, Robert Frost
• Acceptance: Return from Mt Enys, Timothy Church
• Acceptance: Climber traversing High Peak, Andrei Von Dusschoten

Alpine Nature

• Champion: Sunset view out of icecave, Michal Karnik (Erica Beuzenberg Trophy)
• Honours: Veil over La Perouse, Christopher Morton
• Honours: Intensity, Jochen Bind
• Acceptance: Snow Gentiae, James Lochhead
• Acceptance: Barnett moths, Christopher Matthaei
• Acceptance: Crevasses on the Douglas Neve, Gilbert van Reenan
• Acceptance: Iceland waterfall, Craig Miller
• Acceptance: Lily, Sarah Milicich
• Acceptance: Keas, Mark Watson

Rockclimbing

• Champion: Axel Ballay trying El Ponta, Mallorca, Leon Ducasse
• Honours: Sabina Alieman on Alaska, Sardinia. Andrew Peacock
• Acceptance: Climbing on the wrinkles of the earth, Guillame Charton
• Acceptance: Eat yourself fitter, John Palmer
• Acceptance: Zac attack at Wuthering Heights, Derek Thatcher
• Acceptance: Layla, Paynes Ford, Michal Karnik
• Acceptance: Blood Meridian, James Morris
• Acceptance: Rag doll, Mark Watson

Photojournalism

• Champion: The expedition begins, Mary Hobbs
• Acceptance: Learning from Dad, Shane Orchard
• Acceptance: Map reading at dawn, Pete Cammell
• Acceptance: Homage at Vinces Cross, Antarctica, John Henzell

Humour

• Champion: Playing with a dog, Delphine Comparat
• Acceptance: Look I can fly, Al Uren
• Acceptance: Who dunnit, Donna Falconer
• Acceptance: Third wheel, Michael Lee

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