2010 COMPETITION
Enter our 2010 competition now!
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Entries close 25th August 2010 and every year.
$100 cash prizes in 9 categories
Thank dads and all men who have positive times with our children by entering their photo in our 2010 annual 'Thanks Dad National Photo Competition'
2010 Winners
1st Prize Open section by Zorica Purlha
1st Prize section showing grandfather or older carer by Cheryl Heynemann
1st Prize Photo showing 10 - 18 year old child by Kristy Hammond
1st prize "History" section by Wendy Dyer
1st Prize High School Photographer taken by Elizabeth Cuff
1st Prize Primary School Photographer by Emily Smith
1st Prize photo taken with Mobile Phone by Thomas Repback
View some of our 2009 Entries - Slideshow
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Competition - see their great photos and names on this page. Photo stories and Organisers Choice prizes will be announced next week. All the photos will be turned 'live' for you to view from this weekend - all 1,035 of them!! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful photos with us - with out your photos this would amount to nothing!!
Have a wonderful Father's Day this weekend!
Calling all those from Western Australia!
Special Thanks Dad gift for your "Dad"
Great fathers are very special and we know that it can sometimes be hard to find a gift for a child to give their dad that is going to be useful and at the same time send the right message. We have put together a calendar designed for “Dad’s desk” that will remind him how important being a great dad is and give him some ideas for things he can do with his children that month. As you can imagine this has cost us to put together so we are asking if you could please give a $5 donation for downloading the calendar – this can be done directly into our donation account : Summerland Credit Union BSB 802-222 Account number 22274858. You could otherwise post us a cheque to Thanks Dad, P.O. Box 1005, Lismore NSW 2480. If this amount is not possible for you then we would still very much like you to have the calendar so please email me on tdp@ycnc.com.au and I will email the calendar to you. Many thanks and we hope you, and the special man in your lives, enjoy the calendar. Kay Knights
We have put together a selection of 12 PhotoStories in a printable booklet form for you to download, save/print (click on the thumbnail to the left). These PhotoStories have been chosen from entries sent into us within the last 3 years of our competition and we hope you enjoy them as much as we have.
We thank all these entrants who have shared their special stories with us. We will be putting together more stories in this way soon, we kept it to 12 pages to keep it to a reasonable size to download.
If you’d like to send us a comment or feedback about this booklet please click on the ‘Contact’ link near the top of this page for our email address and other contact details. We hope this booklet may inspire you to send us your photos and stories!
Entries are now open for 2010 - the winners for 2009 can be viewed on the right hand side of this page -all the entries can also be viewed in the gallery.
Check out our judges for this year at the bottom of this page!
Dads are wonderful and can make a huge difference in a young child’s life.
At Thanks Dad Photo Competition we like to celebrate the wonderful things men do with their children – and hope to encourage more men to spend more positive time with their children. We don’t just want to thank the Dads but also the really important grandfathers, uncles, step dads, foster dads and older brothers who mean so much to so many children Cash prizes are awarded in 11 Photographic Categories for Adults as well as school aged children.
Every year the pictures travel as part of the Thanks Dad People's Choice Exhibition across the whole of Australia (from Tasmania to Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria and NSW) - being exhibited in Libraries, Shopping Centres, Schools and at Conferences. The Exhibition gives so many people incredible enjoyment from looking at the pictures. As a whole they make up the exhibition that we believe encourages all men to spend more quality time with their children!
Photos are judged not on technical quality but on how you capture the moment. Categories this year that include those asking school aged children to write a short story (max 250 words) about that day or moment of the photo. Stories written for this year's competition can be viewed under "Stories". There is also section this year for people taking a picture with a "mobile phone" in order to encourage people to take a picture on the spur of the moment and to share it with us.
We encourage you to enter up to 5 pictures. Without you, and people like you, this competition and exhibition is nothing! Please share your pictures with us and be part of our move to celebrate the great things men do with our children. All entries from the 2009 competition are now travelling around the country and we invite you to contact us should you be interested in it coming to a location in your town.
We are a national, non-profit competition and exhibition - if you can make a financial contribution towards the costs of running this we would greatly appreciate your donation which can be made online to Summerland Credit Union BSB 802-222 Account number 22274858 please let us know via email if you would like a tax invoice sent for your donation.
Entries close 25th August 2010 and there will be a People’s Choice Exhibition later in the year displaying all the entries that will travel around the country. Thank your dad by sending in your favourite photos – they can be emailed to tdp@ycnc.com.au
Auspiced by Youth Connections North Coast, Lismore NSW. Funded by FaHCSIA - Men and Family Relationship Services Program
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| 2010 Competition Judges | ||
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Damien Leith |
Randy Larcombe |
Campbell Preston |