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Your weekend Your waterway – photo competition 2023

Do you love getting out and about and taking snaps on the Thomson, Macalister or Latrobe rivers and wetlands? If so, this competition is for you!  

West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority is excited to announce the 2023 ‘Your Weekend, Your Waterway Photo Competition’.

All you need to do is grab your camera or phone, head out into the catchment and capture and submit your best photos of any of these three rivers and wetlands via our website (see link below).  

There is $550 worth of shopping vouchers up for grabs, for winners of each category to spend in their local community along with an overall best photo prize.

“We have chosen these three waterways because they receive deliveries of ‘water for the environment’ each year,” said CEO of the WGCMA, Martin Fuller.

 Victoria’s rivers and wetlands supply water for towns, industry and food production. This means we remove a large part of the water that would normally flow into these ecosystems.

To limit this impact, Victoria has ‘environmental water’ in water storages. This water is stored and released to support the animals and plants that live in rivers and wetlands.

“Allocations of environmental water play an important role in improving the health of rivers and wetlands in West Gippsland and this is guided by Seasonal Watering Plans approved by the Victorian Environmental Water Holder,” said Martin.

 “Images from this photo comp will feature in the proposal and help to promote the benefits of environmental water in both dry and wet years.”

 The waterways that receive environmental water deliveries in West Gippsland form the competition categories. So, get snapping your pics at:

    Durt-Yowan (Latrobe River) anywhere downstream from Lake Narracan, including the Lower Latrobe Wetlands ie: Dowd Morass, Heart Morass and Sale Common
    Wirn wirndook Yeerung (Macalister River) anywhere downstream from Lake Glenmaggie
    Carran Carran (Thomson River), including Heyfield Wetlands, anywhere downstream from the Thomson Reservoir.

 “We’re looking for photos showing people using these waterways for their leisure. They might be boating, swimming or having a snooze by a riverbank.” added Martin Fuller.

The West Gippsland CMA’s Your Weekend. Your Waterway Photo Competition is open from Thursday 9  February to Friday 10 March 2023, please read the terms and conditions before submitting your entry.
Winners will be announced before 20 March 2023.  

Page updated 8 February, 2023



Your Weekend, Your Waterway Photography Competition – 2023
Terms and Conditions for the 2023 competition.

    This competition is open to Australian residents. WGCMA staff and their families may enter, but are ineligible to win the main prize.
    All information detailing how to enter this competition forms part of these terms and conditions.
    It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules.
    The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
    Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance and understanding of these terms and conditions.
    All entries are to be submitted via this form, including the entrants full name, address, email, phone number and the detailed location that the photograph was taken.
    All entries must be revived by 11:59pm, Friday 10 March, 2023.
    All images submitted must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition.
    It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that any images they submit have been taken with the permission of the subject and do not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws.
    Entrants must warrant that the photograph they are submitting is their own work and that they own the copyright for it.
    All images should contain one of the identified categories:

    – Durt-Yowan (Latrobe River) anywhere downstream from Lake Narracan, including the Lower Latrobe Wetlands ie: Dowd Morass, Heart Morass and Sale Common

    – Wirn wirndook Yeerung (Macalister River) anywhere downstream from Lake Glenmaggie

    – Carran Carran (Thomson River), including the Heyfield Wetlands (anywhere downstream from the Thomson Reservoir)

    More information on these rivers and wetlands can be found here.
    On submission, the entrant gives the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (WGCMA), irrevocable licence to reproduce, publish, adapt, communicate and broadcast all or part of your entry in any form and media.
    Where possible WGCMA will acknowledge the photographer if and when the image is used.
    The overall prize is a $250 voucher, and the each category has a prize of a $100 voucher.
    Prizes are not transferable for cash.
    Events may occur that render the competition itself or the awarding of the prizes impossible due to reasons beyond the control of WGCMA and accordingly the WGCMA may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to WGCMA as a result thereof.
    Winners will be announced on the WGCMA Facebook page and notified via email.