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'
2009 Winners
Coordinators Prize taken by Karla Northcott
1st Prize Grandfather or Older Carer section taken by Christine Jamieson
1st Prize History Section taken by Nadine Dyer
1st Prize Open Section taken by Jamie Boyd
1st Prize Secondary Aged Photographer taken by Hannah Mathewson
1st Prize Open Photo and story by Tina Day (see gallery for larger size to read)
1st Prize Secondary Age Photo and Story by Jeremy Forbes (see gallery for larger size to read)
1st Prize Primary Age Photo and Story by Abigail and Ezra Franklin
1st Prize Primary Aged Photographer by Zoe Oldfield
1st Prize Photo with child 10 - 18 years of age taken by Leesa Wungluck
1st Prize Photo taken with a Mobile Phone by Janelle Peachey
View some of our 2009 Entries - Slideshow
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.
A huge THANKYOU to everyone who has entered this year - we received an unprecedented number of entries of over 1,000!! Please know that every picture is precious to us and will become part of our exhibition that will travel the country over the next 12 months. Please keep an eye on the exhibition page as we add the places it will travel to over the next year.
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.
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 tdpcoord@communityconnections.org.au
Auspiced by Youth Connections North Coast, Lismore NSW. Funded by FaHCSIA - Men and Family Relationship Services Program
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Hugh | Jon | Dorinda | Tex | Paul |