\u201cI thought I didn\u2019t have a chance, as I would be up against far more experienced photographers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy strategy was to take a photo that was a little bit out of the ordinary so it would stand out against the others, and it obviously worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I love about photography is that it allows you to see the world through a different lens, literally. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou tend to take more time to notice what\u2019s around you, as you are constantly looking for interesting photo opportunities.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Kent is a teacher and poet who, two years ago, published a book, Not Just a Teacher, which has been described as being like \u201ca love letter to educators from all professions in the form of poetry\u201d. <\/p>\n
She said writing and photography were her passions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are great creative outlets which allow me to express myself in quite different ways, but are similar in that they can both tell a story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other judges were former Gisborne Herald photographer Paul Rickard, photographer and former museum director Mike Spedding and Heritage Tair\u0101whiti chair Sheridan Gundry.<\/p>\n
Five-year-old Riley Marshall won the school-age section with a photo of his brother \u201ccatching things\u201d beside the Taruheru River, winning $300, also sponsored by Eastland Port.<\/p>\n
Gundry said the photo had action, colour, and perspective, and provided a slice of life in Tair\u0101whiti today from a child\u2019s viewpoint.<\/p>\n
Runner-up in the open section was Peter Quax with an image of wildlife in the Waipaoa River, and in the school-age section, Bodhi Cowper, 9, with an image of kayakers in the Taruheru River.<\/p>\n
Both prizes were sponsored by Rochdale Advisory Group and, for Quax, by Personality Framers.<\/p>\n
The winners and highly commended entries feature in an exhibition open to the public at Heritage Tair\u0101whiti\u2019s Centre for Heritage at 173 Palmerston Rd (former Plunket Building) every Saturday from 10.30am until 2.30pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect to run the competition again next year with a different theme,\u201d said Gundry. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is part of our plan to keep telling stories of people and place, and to add to the photographic collection of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI thought I didn\u2019t have a chance, as I would be up against far more experienced photographers. \u201cMy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,4596,4962,2950,501,44185,156,3273,19724,8993,76912,23375,130,111,139,69,12663,10512,66425,312,3502,113901,30279,113900,3010,10508,6202],"class_list":["post-178127","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-competition","tag-competitions","tag-confidence","tag-design","tag-enter","tag-entertainment","tag-future","tag-given","tag-heritage","tag-inaugural","tag-kent","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-photo","tag-prize","tag-rivers","tag-says","tag-success","tag-tairawhitis","tag-tairwhiti","tag-taranga","tag-top","tag-winner","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}