CONGRATULATIONS to Jodie Mittendorf, of Belmont, who is the winner of this year’s Newcastle Herald Summer Photo Competition.
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Her image of her six-year-old son Izac, leaping through the spray of a backyard sprinkler, beautifully captures the joy and freedom of a quintessential Australian summer moment.
The sun was going down on Izac’s fun but he didn’t care one little bit, Jodie wrote in her competition entry.
Jodie, a mother of three, said she loved to take snapshots of her children playing in the yard at home. Her aunt suggested she enter this one in the Herald’s photo competition.
The lighting, the composition and the sense of movement drew the judges’ approval.
Jodie wins a Canon 1000 DTKB digital camera worth $1049 from Domayne Kotara.
Student Isabelle Farragher, 17, of Waratah, was enjoying a post-Christmas barbecue when she and her friend Emma decided to cool off in the pool. Isabelle grabbed her camera and snapped Emma as she emerged from the water laughing, resulting in a feel-good picture that has made everyone else who’s seen it smile.
Isabelle wins a $449 Canon SX210IS camera for her second place.
John Valentine, of Whitebridge, is a project engineer with UGL but spends every spare moment taking photographs. This idyllic December sunset over the lake at Swansea was almost perfect, he said, but needed a human element to make it complete. He asked his friend’s daughter to climb up into the tree. Her silhouette made his entry stand out from the crowd to win third place.
John scores a $349 Cannon FS306s video camera for his effort.
