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Honor Auchinleck on 0437 751 552
The Vision Splendid:
The Man from Snowy River Bush Festival Elyne Mitchell Photo Story Competition
https://bushfestival.com.au/
Believe it or not the 2023 Man from Snowy River Bush Festival (13 th – 16 th April
is only just under six months away and entrants for the Elyne Mitchell Photo Story Competition are beginning to think about their entries once again.
Entries open on 1 December 2022. Entries close in mid-February. Keep an eye on the website for confirmation.
Elyne Mitchell only ever wrote one anthology of photo stories A Vision of the
Snowy Mountains (1988). She enjoyed the experience so much that had she
started writing photo stories earlier in her long writing life, she would have
written many more. She loved the inspirational interplay between her
photography and her writing.
The Man from Snowy River Bush Festival Elyne Mitchell Photo Story
Competition hopes that you will find great pleasure in creating your entry for
this year’s Competition. The theme is ‘The Vision Splendid’. You have six
months to find or take a photograph that inspires you and to write about your
interpretation of the ‘Vision Splendid’. Keep an eye on the Man from Snowy
River Bush Festival website for the closing date and other information relating to
the Photo Story Competition. Please remember that your photograph should be
eye-catching and that the photograph and your written component should
complement each other. The quotation ‘Vision Splendid’ comes from A B
Paterson’s poem Clancy of the Overflow.
Enjoy finding a ‘vision splendid’ for yourself. Now that Covid restrictions are a
thing of the past, perhaps you will find your ‘vision’ in some of our wonderful
countryside. Equally you might find it in a dream and then set about working out
how you might use photography to illustrate the description of your dream.
In past years there have been enquiries about whether entrants can use
inspiration from their artwork in their photo stories. I can’t see why not as art is
a wonderful form of inspiration for writing. Entrants may photograph their
artwork and craft their entries from the photograph. The photograph can then
be copied and pasted into the entry above the writing component. Ensure you
use a high-resolution photograph. The photograph and the written component
must be the entrant’s own work. If the entrant wants to submit an entry inspired
by someone else’s artwork, for example a sculpture, the entrant must
photograph the work and acknowledge the artist or sculptor. The written
component can also be written as poetry.
The Photo Story Competition has two categories, one for juniors under eighteen
and the senior category for those over 18 years of age.
You may find that over the next few months you might create a number of
potential entries. You can submit up to five pieces, so choose your photo stories
carefully and submit before entries close in mid-February.
Keep an eye on the website for confirmation.
The Photo Story Competition took off after the 2020 Black Summer bushfires
and Covid. For some people photo stories became a hobby and a part of their
lives that brought great pleasure. As Patron of the Photo Story Competition,
nothing can please me more than framing and helping exhibit the shortlisted
entries in the Art and Photography exhibition and taking part in some of the
subsequent conversations with writer-photographer entrants and Festival
visitors. Go to it and enjoy!!
Honor Auchinleck