Announcing the five successful megafauna photographers:
Jennifer Marohasy Tel. 041 887 3222. Yeppoon, 3rd August 2024
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Photographic Competition & Expedition 2024
In celebration of the megafauna at the Great Barrier Reef, this dive trip includes Yongala Wreck, Wheeler Reef and Myrmidon Reef in the Central Section of The Great Barrier Reef.
It will be FREE passage, a bed, all meals and up to 14 dives for five competitors. Depending on the number of applicants the final five may be decided by lottery.
At a conference in London last year, singing the praises of the Great Barrier Reef, I sparked the idea for an annual competition in search of the megafauna – the largest corals, rays, sharks, fish, clams and whales at the Great Barrier Reef.
That idea is now a reality with the MV Sea Esta departing Townsville Breakwater Marina for 4 days (5 nights). All aboard Monday, 2nd September 2024 – by 8pm!
SCHEDULE
Monday, 02.09.2024 depart for Wheeler Reef (8pm)
Tuesday, 03.09.2024 Wheeler / Grub Reef – depart to Myrmidon Reef
Wednesday, 04.09.2024 Myrmidon Reef – depart for Chicken Reef
Thursday, 05.09.2024 Chicken Reef – depart for Yongala Wreck.
Friday, 06.09.2024 Yongala Wreck – depart for Townsville
Saturday, 07.09.2024 disembark in Townsville (8am)
SELECTION CRITERIA
- Be enthusiastic about the Great Barrier Reef and its megafauna
- Be a certified scuba diver, with camera skills and a camera
- Be prepared to sort and share photographs according to standardized procedures each day of the expedition (September 3-6th)
- Photographs are potentially valuable scientific observations/know how to photograph including to accurately show the size of the organism, and
- Be prepared to be a part of the story: to communicate what you saw, what you photographed/filmed and what you missed each day
Send your resume with covering-email communicating your understanding of the above five selection criteria to jenn@jennifermarohasy.com before 5pm, Monday 29th July 2024.
Depending on the number of applicants, the final five competitors may be decided by lottery.
FOUR CATEGORIES
- Largest coral
- Largest clam
- Largest fish, that is not a ray or shark
- Largest ray or shark or whale.
This is a photographic competition, and you retain the copyright while allowing Jennifer Marohasy and Adrenalin Snorkel and Dive the opportunity to use your images in promotions for future expeditions, at photographic exhibitions, and on social media celebrating the Great Barrier Reef’s megafauna.
FOUR PRIZES
Each winner, of each of the above four categories, will receive A$500. A single participant could win a total of A$2,000 – if they win each category.
Photographs musts be high resolution images and can be portrait, wide angle or extracted from video; they must include some type of yardstick (could be a buddy) to provide an estimation of true size. The photograph must have been taken underwater during the period of the expedition (September 3-6, 2024). For more information see conditions of entry.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
- All entrants must be on-board the MV SeaEsta for the duration of the marine megafauna expedition.
- All images submitted are to be the work of the submitting photographer and taken during the expedition.
- Electronic retouching and cropping of images are permissible.
- No composite images permitted.
- Do not remove metadata from the image.
- There may be a request to the submitting photographer for an original file if there is doubt over the validity of the submitted image.
- Images can be portrait or landscape but must be at least 3969 pixels at 240 pixels per inch on their longest edge. (This means that the image is an A3 or 420mm x 297mm).
- Files submitted to be high-quality JPEG.
- Maximum of 4 images per photographer per category.
- Emphasis for judging will be on finding the largest coral, clam, ray, shark, fish and whale – where more than one participant filmed the same ‘largest megafauna’ then other criteria including awe and beauty will be considered.
- Judges’ decisions are final and not open for debate.
- Prizes for first place in each category may be awarded on the last night of the expedition – if everything goes to plan, or later.
- All entries, including the winning entries, may be displayed at exhibitions in Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Sydney, Melbourne and possibly also London – if these opportunities presents.
- Entrants retain copyright while agreeing that all and any images submitted may be used by Jennifer Marohasy and ‘Adrenalin Snorkel and Dive’ including on social media and to advertise the competition in future years.
This competition is about stepping into the Great Barrier Reef and returning with a record of your observations of the marine megafauna – that you are prepared to share.
Jennifer Marohasy Tel. 041 887 3222. Yeppoon, 11th July, 2024