From an Australian photographic Society media release:
Second place in the Open Category of the 2008 Australian Digital Photography Awards (ADPA) has been taken out by a Canberran – amateur photographer Brian Rope AAPS of Melba. His image entitled Manvar Tableau 2 was taken on the desert sand dunes at Manvar in Rajasthan during a 17 day tour of parts of India in February of this year. It features a silhouetted camel and his driver before the setting sun. Two other Canberrans had images accepted in the competition: amateur photographer Jim Mason AAPS and professional photographer David Reid.
1165 entries were submitted to this second annual ADPA by 206 photographers from all over Australia and from members of the Australian Photographic Society living overseas. 727 of the entries were in the Open category (straight photography if you like), whilst 438 were entered in the Creative/Altered Reality category. The judging panel was Dr Albert Hoveling AAPS SSAPS (President of the APS), Janie News AAPS, and Jennifer Horsnell AFIAP FAPS.
Other winners were:
1st in Open category: ‘Rainbow Bee Eater’ by Wayne Eddy.
1st in Creative/Altered Reality Category: ‘ANZAC Remembered’ by Ron Willems, AAPS, AFIAP, FPSNZ, ARPS.
2nd in Creative/Altered Reality Category: ‘Broken Dreams’ by Andy Smylie.
The ADPA event was part of Vivid: National Photography Festival which is being held for the first time in the Canberra region from 11 July to 12 October 2008. Vivid celebrates photography in all its forms through 100 exhibitions at 50 venues. The APS is proud to have been a part of this ground-breaking collaboration.
