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Healthy waterways underpin our lifestyles and livelihoods. When waterways thrive, so do we.
For your chance to win awesome prizes, enter the Wet Tropics Waterways photography competition with an image that captures the beauty of our waterways.
Send us your best waterway photos – from rivers to waterfalls and estuaries to ocean – for your chance to win from an awesome prize stash!
And you never know, your image could end up on the front cover of one of our publications:
This Wet Tropics Waterways competition is celebrating the beauty, diversity and importance of our waterways big and small. Judged by Far North Queensland professional photographers, there are plenty of categories for everyone to enter.
Prizes include:
COMPETITION CATEGORIES
Wildlife and water: Wildlife in or at a waterway e.g. swimming, eating, drinking, hiding, passing by. This includes aquatic animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects…
Landscape: Scenery is the main focus but there can also be people and/or animals.
Drone
Underwater
People and water: A person/people enjoying/interacting with/impacting a waterway (the impact could be negative, or positive).
Kids: For under -15s – your best waterways shot! You can include wildlife and people.
JUDGES
Matt Curnock – Townsville – Underwater photographer
Paul Curtis – Kuranda – Landscape photographer
Julia Sumerling – Cairns – Underwater photographer and videographer
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The competition is open to all Australian residents.
Images must be of waterways in the Wet Tropics region (between the Daintree in the north, the Herbert River catchment in the south and the Atherton Tablelands in the west) ‘Waterways’ includes freshwater, estuarine and marine waters.
By submitting an entry you authorise Wet Tropics Waterways to use the entry image/s in future publications, without remuneration. This includes, but is not limited to, social media, websites, and digital and print publications. Photos used by Wet Tropics Waterways will acknowledge the photographer.
Multiple categories can be entered, but only 1 image per category.
All photos must be submitted by 5pm, 5 March 2025.
By submitting an entry you confirm that:
For more information contact Tara Ganley at: tara.ganley@terrain.org.au.
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Martine joined the Wet Tropics Waterways team as a Science Technical Officer in early 2024 and is keen to apply her experience in statistical programming and database development for the Report Card.
She is an environmental scientist and ecologist and has worked on water quality and aquatic ecology projects as a consultant and in private industry for over 20 years.
Martine has many hobbies and is currently dabbling in horticulture.
With a degree in marine biology and zoology from JCU, Phil has had a diverse career covering research in fisheries biology, 15 years in reef tourism and 13 years with GBRMPA delivering engagement and partnerships programs. Since 2019 he has been self-employed and operates as a consultant to a range of stakeholders on waterway related programs.
He is a keen fisherman.
James joined Wet Tropics Waterways as Executive Officer in 2021 and is passionate about working with stakeholders to communicate the value of our unique waterways. His role involves facilitating and coordinating our partnership program, growing our network and investment into the report card program, and science communication. James oversaw the 2022 Innovations in Waterway Health Forum, and hosted season four of the Reef and Rivers podcast.
James is an ecologist and has previously worked on wetland management in the Murray Darling basin, fish passage in Mackay, and aquatic research in the Wet Tropics.
Outside of work you’ll find him in a local waterway with a mask and snorkel, or hiking or biking around our beautiful region.
Richard has been the Science Technical Officer for Wet Tropics Waterways since 2016. His role involves producing the annual results for the waterway health assessment of the wet tropics region using data from a wide range of sources, to present as scores and grades, as well as developing new indicators to address knowledge and monitoring gaps. He works in collaboration with technical staff at other regional report cards.
Richard has a background in freshwater ecology research projects and environmental assessments with CSIRO, University of Queensland, Queensland Government and as a consultant. For a long time he’s been interested in freshwater aquaculture and continues this interest through farming freshwater crayfish, alongside other farming activities.