{"id":575233,"date":"2026-07-30T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575233\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:47:18","slug":"swanage-carnival-photo-competition-winners-announced-swanage-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575233\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanage Carnival photo competition winners announced \u2013 Swanage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo marathon at Swanage Carnival 2026 in Dorset attracted dozens of entrants, all snapping away to produce more than 200 amazing photographs across seven categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual competition challenges entrants to take their own original photographs in Swanage within a 48 hour time limit to illustrate a number of different themes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Swanage-Carnival-photo-marathon-2026-16-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Swanage Carnival photo marathon winners 2026\" class=\"wp-image-54651\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the winners of the competion supported by Swanage.News (left to right) Elena Boto, Jo Fowler, and Graeme Neale<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were very inventive\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration for the competition had to be completed by midday on Saturday 25th July 2026 and those taking part had to submit their photos by the deadline of midday Monday 27th July 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swanage Carnival photo marathon organiser Nadine Hudson-Featherstone said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnother fantastic year with some very creative entries, despite the heat. It was lovely to see so many photographic interpretations of the words and phrases in each category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople were very inventive and produced more than 200 really good photographs, which made it very tricky for the judges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe hope everyone enjoyed the challenge and look forward to seeing everyone take part again next year!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winners 2026Hot \u2013 Jo FowlerOut of place \u2013 Ali BurnettGold rush \u2013 Graeme NealeSkies and spectacle \u2013 Elena BotoSpirit of Swanage \u2013 Annie SteedenAfter dark \u2013 Charlie (under 18)Wanted \u2013 Elsie (under 18)Winning gallery<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1.-Jo-Fowler-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 Hot category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54653\"  \/>Jo Fowler<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hot \u2013 Jo Fowler<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2.-Ali-Burnett-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 Out of Place category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54659\"  \/>Ali Burnett<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of place \u2013 Ali Burnett<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3.GraemeN-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 Gold Rush category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54658\"  \/>Graeme Neale<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gold rush \u2013 Graeme Neale<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4.ElenaB-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 Skies and Spectacle category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54657\"  \/>Elena Boto<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skies and spectacle \u2013 Elena Boto<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5.AnnieS-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 Spirit of Swanage category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54656\"  \/>Annie Steeden<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirit of Swanage \u2013 Annie Steeden<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6.-Megan-Colley-890x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 After Dark category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54655\"  \/>Charlie C<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After dark \u2013 Charlie (under 18)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7.-Elsie-Burnett-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Marathon 2026 Wanted category winner\" class=\"wp-image-54654\"  \/>Elsie B<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wanted \u2013 Elsie (under 18)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photo marathon at Swanage Carnival 2026 in Dorset attracted dozens of entrants, all snapping away to produce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-575233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}