Climate change photo competition
Thank you to everyone who entered our photo competition!
Between 11 December 2017 and 9 April 2018 we received over 100 photo entries which explored how our region is being affected by climate change as well as how you are responding to this change and trying to create a more sustainable city.
The winning images were announced on Tuesday 1 May 2018 at the ACT Climate Change Strategy consultation summary event.
The winners and their images are featured in the gallery below.
Winning images
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Image gallery
Nathan Scaysbrook
Stop and take a second
Nathan Scaysbrook
Don't repeat mistake of old for the new
Nathan Scaysbrook
Love it or loose it.
Nathan Scaysbrook
Preservation.
Nathan Scaysbrook
Our beautiful city.
Nargis Rostazada
Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Joachim Wille-Bellchambers
Ride more to reduce carbon emissions from cars and motorbikes.
Meg Thotthadi
Take a look outside and see the many reasons as to why mother nature is worth saving.
Meg Thotthadi
An everyday example of climate change.
Meg Thotthadi
Never too late to start your journey.
Meg Thotthadi
Another view on Mother Nature's gifts.
Meg Thotthadi
The world in our hands.
Meg Thotthadi
The power of green.
Meg Thotthadi
Fireworks: a beautiful yet costly mistake.
Meg Thotthadi
See it. Feel it. Save it.
Meg Thotthadi
Looking into the eyes of wildlife.
Meg Thotthadi
Bareness of winter.
Meg Thotthadi
Sealing their fate with our mistakes.
Meg Thotthadi
Jerry Yang
The change in climate has made some areas, previously thriving, become inhospitable to the previous inhabitants.
Chris Ratcliffe
How far will fossil fuels take us?
Celia Craig
Let’s start the two wheel revolution to reduce motor vehicle generated greenhouse gas emissions.
Celia Craig
Let’s save what’s left of the finite fossil fuel coal resources.
Anthony Croke
Kayaking is a pastime with a negligible carbon footprint, which increases fitness and encourages an appreciation of the environment
Anthony Croke
Beauty encroached.
Anthony Croke
Stand tall for the environment. Water birds rest on a log washed into Lake Burley Griffin from a recent storm.
Anthony Croke
Can we outrun climate change?
Anouk Schumann-Morin
Breathing in carbon dioxide and breathing out oxygen, trees are the lungs of our planet.
Anouk Schumann-Morin
Changing our future by fixing our past.
Tom Dears
The huge wind turbines near Bungendore are keeping pollution out of our skies.
Tom Dears
If we walk in nature more then we would be more healthy and wouldn’t impact our environment so much.
Tom Dears
These great solar panels at the Royalla farm are what’s going to power my house after all the dirty coal has gone.
Kaitlyn Knowler
River rapids.
Kaitlyn Knowler
Melting Arctic.
Kaitlyn Knowler
Dead tree during a dust storm.
Kaitlyn Knowler
Sun setting on a hot day.
Lachlan Brumby
The next generation of possums will live in a climate different to ours.
Eleanor Roggeveen
Rain, Rain, flow away. I took this photo of the floods in Lyneham on the 25 February 2018.
Nilofar Rostazada
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Sam Heinsohn
To reduce emissions a growing city needs renewable energy from wind and the sun.
Sam Heinsohn
Mid way through Autumn and we are still having 30 degree.
Sam Heinsohn
Canberra was built for cars but the new tram will help stop the endless traffic.
Wainus Ashkbar
Look deep in to nature, and then you understand everything better (Albert Einstein).
Alex Filo
Like a rainbow that brings colours together, let’s hope governments around the world will also come together to paint a sustainable future.
Meagan Cousins
Sunburnt country.
Selvana Alnajjar
Jake Gumley
This photo was taken at a property in Hoskinstown where the dams have all dried up.
Lady Nora Preston
Violent storms will increase.
Isobel Shearman
All that's left as the sun sets.
Katelyn Marion
This photo depicts two friends walking home. By not driving their car or using appliances at home they are reducing their footprint.
Sarah Lewis
A townhouse veggie patch. Even small spaces can be green, productive and water efficient.
Ethan Wilson
Ethan Wilson
Ethan Wilson
Ethan Wilson
Ethan Wilson
Karen Hosking
Hiking to the top of Mount. Arawang. So close to home. Beautiful nature walks at our back door.
Karen Hosking
Without clean water in the lake, the bird life in Canberra would suffer.
Helen Palethorpe
Stephen and his daughter Elise next to the solar dehydrator they made from recycled materials.
Richie Southerton
A change to a warmer climate can paradoxically increase the number and severity of frosts through more cloudless nights.
Karen Wilson
Jim in the fort at John Knight Memorial Park overlooking Lake Ginninderra.
Karen Wilson
John Knight Park has some great spaces to explore. Usually when we visit we bring rubbish bags and do our bit collecting rubbish.
Karen Wilson
Patrick following the sensory path and creek in John Knight Memorial Park.
Karen Wilson
Jim and Patrick explore the island at John Knight Memorial Park.
Karen Wilson
Picnic by the lake, watching the storm clouds roll in from the south west.
Karen Wilson
My son, Jim (8 years old) rides his scooter to school. Riding is a great, environmentally friendly alternative to driving, reducing our carbon footprint.
Mark Jekabsons
Electrical storm over Black Mountain.
Mark Jekabsons
Electrical storm.
Tara Powell
Playground fun.
Tara Powell
Bike park fun.
Tara Powell
Quiet time at Lake Tuggeranong
Jasmine Howorth
I have visited this place (Franz Joseph glacier, NZ) several times for mountaineering and the dramatic change is very sad.
Ian Franca
This photo depicts the integration of man-made structures (Lake Burley Griffin) and nature (Black Mountain Peninsula and Weston Park).
Bhaumik Bumia
Bhaumik Bumia
Bhaumik Bumia
Bhaumik Bumia
Bhaumik Bumia
Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones
Taken on a hot day at Mulligans Flat. If you look closely you can see this wallaby has been licking its arms to stay cool.
Owen Matthews
Drought-hardy plant surviving with low rainfall.
Owen Matthews
Low water levels at Mount Majura waterhole.
Panduka Senanayake
Contribute not, to their (swan) song.
Panduka Senanayake
Cool cat on a hot day at the Tuggeranong Lake.
Panduka Senanayake
Cleaner the surface, to let in the sun's rays. A brighter future and dollars in the wallet.
Patricia Olejniczak
Canberra will face a blazing hot issue if climate change is ignored.
Patricia Olejniczak
Garden city no more.
Ross Kelly
Metal Beam
Ross Kelly
Catastrophic.
Ross Kelly
Telstra Tower.
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Sheridan Stroud
Sheridan Stroud
Stormy night.
Sheridan Stroud
Thin branches.
Sheridan Stroud
Thin branches.
Sheridan Stroud
Going home
Dannyra Heng
Dannyra Heng
Dannyra Heng
Dannyra Heng
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Jessica Preston
Katelyn Marion
Peculiar Plants - this photo depicts a dead plant to the left showing the impact of the increasing temperatures of climate change.
Matthew Sherren
We live in a beautifull city, lets keep it that way.
Shriram Kalaspurkar
Do I produce green house gases, when I decompose? Sorry I am helpless.
Shriram Kalaspurkar
Shriram Kalaspurkar
Shriram Kalaspurkar
Shriram Kalaspurkar
Sujay Krishnamoorthi
We should be like a sun - destroy all kinds of negativity in their lives and shine with hope and positivity ! respect nature!
Sujay Krishnamoorthi
We should be like a sun - destroy all kinds of negativity in their lives and shine with hope and positivity ! respect nature!
Sujay Krishnamoorthi
We should be like a sun - destroy all kinds of negativity in their lives and shine with hope and positivity! respect nature!
Sujay Krishnamoorthi
We should be like a sun - destroy all kinds of negativity in their lives and shine with hope and positivity! respect nature!
Sujay Krishnamoorthi
We should be like a sun - destroy all kinds of negativity in their lives and shine with hope and positivity! respect nature!
Jan Fish
Echidnas can suffer organ failure if their bodies can't cool down enough. It is very important for them to have access to water during these increasing heatwaves.
