A huge thanks to our judge Kevin Bowie, and thanks to him for taking the time to attend to present results also.
| Dunedin Hillside | Wayne Allott | C | Well seen abstract composition. The eye wanders through the image stopping at shapes and textures of interest. | Accepted |
| Farm Road | C | Your images must be sharp. Make sure your title is strongly connected to the image or what you are trying to convey. | No award | |
| Mt Taranaki | Wendy Pope | C | Great capture we don’t often get this fortunate from a plane window. Nice side light revealing texture and colour of the landscape. | Accepted |
| Early Morning Nude Landscape | C | The image is more about the shed rather than the landscape. The shallow DOF makes this point forcing the eye constantly to the shed. | No award | |
| Gum Tree Valley | Linda Ritchie | C | This photographer has created this image with a photographic eye. He/She has seen the elements available and made a composition that works within the framing allowed. | Honours |
| Fiordland | C | Beautiful scene to photograph but let down by composition. A big highlight blow out and boat hardware top left are against you. | No award | |
| Morning Rise | C | Magic time of day. The boat and wake are an interesting reference point to give us a sense place, but watch how much weight you give them. | No award | |
| Late Afternoon | Diane McGregor | C | Nice composition and side lighting make this a pleasing image. | Accepted |
| Mt Cook from Lake Benmore | Hayden McCoy | C | Great shot of Mt.Cook with evening light showing lots of detail. | Accepted |
| Queensland Sunrise | C | At this time of day look at where the light is falling. Especially to the side and behind you, that’s where the magic will be | No award | |
| Lake Alexandrina | C | Point and shoot on a sunny day… go back to this place at dusk. | No award | |
| Sunset over Ravenswood | C | The elements are here for an interesting image but not in a strong compositional way. Foreground highlights are distracting rather than adding to the scene. | No award | |
| Tunnel Beach – Dunedin | Hayden McCoy | C | Great landscape subject captured here. The textures and colours, the time of day and the dramatic sky make this a strong image… except for the annoying foreground rock. | Accepted |
| NelsonLakes | C | Nice shot and colours. Pleasing composition. | No award | |
| Ashley River | C | You’ve got to make your composition stronger. Was it the colour of the bushes against the trees that caught your eye?… if so move closer | No award | |
| Matsumoto | Kath Cosgrove | C | Clean composition but would reduce sky exposure to bring the eye back to the interesting foreground. | Accepted |
| Autumn glory | B | Beautiful colours of course composition lets it down. | No award | |
| Standing Tall | B | Tree just not hero enough in shape or form or colour. Reducing sky exposure would help to create a more dynamic image. | No award | |
| DifferentLines | B | Interesting subject taken from a viewpoint that makes this image very flat looking. | No award | |
| Sunset | B | A magic time of day but just not interesting enough in composition. | No award | |
| View from Mt Cheeseman | B | Awesome viewpoint but weak composition and file noise. | No award | |
| Rakaia George in the distance | B | Point and shoot feel and lacking sharpness. | No award | |
| Conway Flat | Peter Wright | B | Love this, a lot of thought from the photographer in camera with composition and in editing a mood or a feeling… maybe crop a little to the left? | Honours |
| Routeburn | Anna Heasley | B | Watch distracting highlights, nice light and colour in the centre of the image. | Accepted |
| Late spring snow, Lindis Pass | B | Nice image but sensor spot on righthand side of blue sky cost this image an acceptance. | No award | |
| South Australia Coastline | B | Nice light but watch out for bright highlight spots in any image. being closer to some of the land formations may have created more interest. | No award | |
| Franz Josef | B | The eye wanders through this image mainly from left to right looking for somewhere to rest. I know this is a place of grandeur but struggle to get that feeling from this image. | No award | |
| West Coast | B | Great light but image has a chopped off feel to it. | No award | |
| Fantail Falls Haast Pass | Brian Edmunds | B | Good exposure to capture the milky water. The righthand side could have benefitted from a touch more exposure. | Accepted |
| Bass Strait Sunset | B | Sunsets/sunrises are hard to get right especially in composition. The magic is often just being there and enjoying first/last rays of the day. This image is let down by lens flare. | No award | |
| Autumnal Colours Leader Road | B | Composition is let down by foreground foliage distraction and out of focus background. | No award | |
| The Vulcan, South Bay Motunau | Danielle Armstrong | B | Good composition but end of day light may’ve been more moody? | Accepted |
| Tekapo On Fire | B | Fabulous colours but lower sky sensor spots let this image down. | No award | |
| Alpine vista | B | Composition good but the flat light doesn’t help this image. | No award | |
| Spirit Island | Sue Titmuss | A | Strong composition with a nice feeling of balance through foreground, midground and background. Would like to see more contrast in the background to give even more 3D affect to the image. | Honours |
| Wine Country | Rose Kerin | A | Good composition, nice light and colour. Take care not to “chop off” subject. | Accepted |
| Punakaiki Coast | A | Nice end of day light. Awkward position makes good composition difficult. | No award | |
| Storm in Kaikoura Mountains | Colleen Linnell | A | Well done on capturing a mood. Although righthand foreground quite soft. | Accepted |
| McLeans Falls | A | Great composition but blueish area to the right lets it down. | No award | |
| Purity | Cheryl Muirson | A | Good composition but the highlights a little strong. | Accepted |
| alone | John Cosgrove | A | Interesting composition and nice work with colour | Accepted |
| Peters Pool | A | Obviously a difficult position to make this image with too much righthand foreground. Would have benefitted from a little gradient filtering the sky. | No award | |
| St Kilda Dusk | A | Nice light and composition but horizon not level. | No award | |
| Old Growth Forest | A | Some nice colours to exploit here but the out of focus foreground is distracting, weakening the composition. | No award | |
| The Remarkables | A | Great viewpoint but let down by “chopped off” editing. | No award | |
| Somewhere over the Rainbow | Cheryl Muirson | A | Interesting composition with plenty of detail in the highlights. | Accepted |
| reflection | John Cosgrove | A | Good composition but watch foreground Clean-up | Accepted |
| Moody Matheson | Ross Lawler | A | Mood well captured but could be even stronger with a darker sky. | Accepted |
| Mountain Road Marlborough | A | Great country but red stakes distracting along with sky and background which would have benefitted from a grad filter. | No award | |
| Katiki Beach | Sandra McCoy | A | Nice approach with colour making an interesting composition. | Accepted |
| Speargrass Flat | A | Interesting viewpoint but just a point and shoot feel to it. | No award | |
| View from Balmoral Fire Lookout | A | Again a great viewpoint but the light has made it difficult for a strong composition. | No award | |
| Haast – Pleasant Point | Amy Boyce | A | Gorgeous image, with soft foliage leading the eye into the water fall with lots of milky highlights. | Honours |
| Mount Wellington God Rays | A | Great viewpoint but not much detail between the blown out highlights and shadows. | No award | |
| Kaikoura Sunrise | Eunice Belk | A | Good composition and nice light | Accepted |
| Maniototo | A | Good composition but again would have benefitted from a grad filter in the sky. | No award | |
| Lake Lyndon | A | A point and shoot feel, watch for spots in the sky. | No award | |
| It’s clearing up | A | Nice composition withmoody light and colour. Watch for editing trails around cliff face. | No award | |
| Twizel Hoar Frost | David Bayley | A | Good use of shapes and lines, with just a little more cropping of sky. | Accepted |
| Hidden Beauty | A | Not quite there for me as a composition, a pair of waders could have captured interesting light on the righthand side of the image. | No award | |
| Bush scene Arthurs Pass | A | Hardly anything for the eye to enjoy here. Blocked up shadows and almost blown out highlights. | No award | |
| Rock & Range | Lyonne Van Robinson | A | Nice evening light on Lake Tekapo with a pleasing composition of foreground, midground and background. | Accepted |
| Borland Saddle | Alan McDougall | A | Again the eye is lead into the image nicely, watch the scale of visual anchors in an image, in this image a bit small for my eye and is it even required? | Accepted |
| McLean Falls | Cathy Price | A | Another stunning waterfall image with highlights in all the right places. The composition flows naturally with the water.The eye is lead from side to side throughout the image. | Honours |
| Lake Pukaki | A | Nice subject but a soft image particularly around the righthand foreground. Watch out for distracting elements around edge of images… especially highlights. | No award | |
| Early morn Lake Heron | Trevor White (LPSNZ) | A | Gorgeous, captured a beautiful mood here especially with a little bit of morning colour. Super tidy composition flowing throughout the image. | Honours |
| Valley view | A | Good composition but let down by a colour balance issue? | No award | |
| Badlands | A | Quite a flat image in terms of composition and light. | No award | |
| Lake Heron | Robyn Young | A | Lovely mood, light, colour and composition. | Honours |
| Calverley Beach | A | A different approach to a surf scene, but the eye wanders through a lot of no detail areas in the sand and sea and then again no where to rest in the highlights of the surf. | No award | |
| Rock window | Pol Syrett | A | Well seen composition with nice balance of colour and contrast. Consider reducing image foreground and left side to force the eye to look into the hole on the rock. Clone out foreground highlights. | Accepted |
| Play Misty for Me…. | A | The elements required are here in this image but somewhere in the top half not the bottom half. | No award | |
| Mooloolaba Rocks | Allan McGregor | A | Good composition of texture and light make this an interesting image. | Accepted |
| Light | A | There is beautiful light here but not the composition to support it. | No award | |
| Foggy Morning | A | Great time of day for colour and light but exposure too low creating too much noise in the image. | No award | |
| Mist again!! | A | Nice composition but more a grey image rather than a true black and white approach which reveals more contrast. | No award | |
| Manorburn | Michael Molloy | A | Good viewpoint creating an interesting image with the buildings giving a sense of scale | Accepted |
| Gateway to adventure | Sue Titmuss | A | Would love to see this image with a more forbidding sky still a nice composition. | Accepted |
| Waimakariri Sunrise | A | Wonderful timing of the light but the loss of strong foreground holds this one back. | No award | |
| Waipara Country | Rose Kerin | A | Nice composition with ground depth and vignetting holding the eye within the image | Accepted |
| Gum Tree Valley | Linda Ritchie | C | Best C Grade | |
| Conway Flat | Peter Wright | B | Best B Grade | |
| Haast – Pleasant Point | Amy Boyce | A | Best A Grade, Champion |