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:

• Double pass – River Drift Snorkelling Tour with Back Country Bliss
• Family pass – Friends in the Rainforest package (Kuranda Koala Gardens & Birdworld Kuranda entry)
• $80 Wharf One Cafe voucher
• Double pass Cairns Sightseeing Cruise > 75 Minutes > Trinity Inlet & Cairns Waterfront with Cairns Adventure Group
• Double pass – Skyrail Rainforest Cableway return trip
• Stand Up Paddleboard Full Moon Paddle at Lake Tinaroo with What’SUP Cairns
• Family pass – Hartleys Crocodile Adventures

 

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, 31 March 2025. 

By submitting an entry you confirm that:

• The work is your own.
• Images do not violate or infringe on anyone else’s rights, and are not in violation of any law.
• Images have not caused damage to the environment by the photographer, and the image has not been taken in areas where human presence is restricted by authorities or relevant property managers.
• If your submission has people in it, you have written permission for our usage requirements from the person depicted, can provide a copy of this permission to Wet Tropics Waterways if requested.
• Photos have not been digitally altered beyond standard optimisation (cropping, spotting for dust, reasonable adjustments to exposure, color and contrast, etc.

For more information contact Tara Ganley at:  tara.ganley@terrain.org.au. 

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