Porirua Harbour Trust
In November 2023 the Harbour Trust ran a photography competition called “Show us your harbour”. The competition had seven categories: Scenic, Nature, Artistic, Recreational, Challenges, College and Primary School. The Award winners, announced in February 2024, are shown below:
Many thanks to the many organisations and individuals who sponsored the competition and an exhibition of winners and place getters at Pataka including:
- Ngāti Toa for endorsement as mana whenua
- The Guardians of Pāuatahanui Inlet – our partner voluntary organisation on harbour health
- Clark and Co – sponsoring the competition website and developing the entry system; particularly, Cameron Hill web developer.
- Sunny Skinner for social media
- The Porirua City Council Harbour team – financial support and worked with schools to include photography in environmental education programmes.
- Pataka for hosting the awards ceremony and exhibition
- Members of the Porirua Photography Club – including Geoff Marshall and Gary Jones.
- Simon Woolf for mentoring, for printing photos and providing the nature award trophy
- Epson, for providing paper and ink for prints
- Trust House, for a grant towards the cost of preparing the prints for exhibition
- The Mountains to Sea Trust, GOPI, the Friends of Pataka, Steve Kenny on behalf of the whānau of the late Thom Kenny and Daryl Hayes, for contributing funding for the awards, Simon Woolf .
- Most essential of all we want to thank our wonderful judges:
- Ross Giblin, Helen Duncan, Esther Bunning and Ana Lubyich as judges
The organising committee - Christine Jacobson (Chair), Daryl Hayes, Helen Waldron, Nick Maitland, Paula can Wijmen, Janet Ryan.