{"id":23357,"date":"2025-09-15T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23357\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:56:08","slug":"ihcs-nature-photography-to-be-exhibited-at-hastings-foto-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23357\/","title":{"rendered":"IHC\u2019s nature photography to be exhibited at Hastings Foto Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">The judges were <a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\">Hawke\u2019s Bay photographer Shayne Jeffares, <\/a>Christchurch photographer Bridgit Anderson and 2024 First Place Winner Beren Hughes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">All said they were honoured to view and select from such a powerful collection of entries.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\" Dan Zam claimed first place for his photo Whio in the 2025 Capture The Moment photography competition. Photo \/ Dan Zam.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Dan Zam claimed first place for his photo Whio in the 2025 Capture The Moment photography competition. Photo \/ Dan Zam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Auckland-based Dan Zam\u2019s photograph of a lone, New Zealand duck Whio, claimed first prize. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis duck is just sitting there thinking, a reminder for everyone to chill out in your own space,\u201d said Zam. <\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Second place went to Connor Stokes from Auckland who sought inspiration from  Muriwai Beach on Auckland\u2019s west coast for his photograph The Sacred End of the Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">Dean Coleman from Pukekohe took third place with his image of sunlight through trees called A Quiet Moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">The Youth Award winner was Aurora McCulloch from Darfield with her work Taniwha Splash taken at the Rakaia Gorge River.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Wellington\u2019s Regan Humphries photograph Muscles shot upwards through a forest canopy. Photo \/ Regan Humphries\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Wellington\u2019s Regan Humphries photograph Muscles shot upwards through a forest canopy. Photo \/ Regan Humphries<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cM\u0101ori legend says a Taniwha lives in the river&#8230; Is this a splash from the Taniwha caught in my photo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">The People\u2019s Choice Award went to Wellington\u2019s Regan Humphries with his photograph Muscles shot upwards through a forest canopy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLeaves, sun and trees, make me feel happy,\u201d said Humphries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"IGIlsTinqXLQ\" style=\"display:none\">All of the top 30 finalists from Capture the Moment will be exhibited at Foto Fest in Hastings from September 19 to October 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judges were Hawke\u2019s Bay photographer Shayne Jeffares, Christchurch photographer Bridgit Anderson and 2024 First Place Winner Beren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8038,836,3471,442,498,499,500,1975,5195,501,24116,24115,156,24112,24114,24113,5194,24111,194,2061,111,139,69,5296,254,24117,1961,61,379],"class_list":["post-23357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-natural","tag-836","tag-among","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-at","tag-be","tag-design","tag-duck","tag-endemic","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibited","tag-fest","tag-foto","tag-hastings","tag-ihcs","tag-kiwi","tag-nature","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-settings","tag-this","tag-to","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357","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=23357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}