Competitions

Photo Challenge 41: Pan for Success
We asked Photo Challengers to dial in a slow shutter speed and then to 'pan for success' in Challenge #41. Since it was such a wide open brief we didn't have any particular expectations about what we might receive. But, as usual, the creative responses ranged widely across the blurry landscape of slow shutter photography.  ... [more]
Like Photo Review on Facebook by 9th August 2010
For your chance to win a prize pack from Lexar worth over $AU600, simply "Like" Photo Review on Facebook by 9th August 2010. ... [more]
Photo Challenge 40: Absolutely Pollock
For our Absolutely Pollock challenge we asked photographers to seek out instances of accidental human-created abstract beauty. As usual, our Photo Challengers went out into the world with their cameras and came back with a selection of arresting images.  ... [more]
Low Light Photo Competition
Send us your best low light photos and you could win one of 3 feature-packed Sony HX5V cameras RRP $629. ... [more]
Photo Challenge 39: Night Lights
The inspiration for the Night Lights challenge came about after we decided to publish the lovely night studies of Sydney photographer Peter Solness (Photo Review Australia issue 41). We hoped that our Photo Challengers would be similarly inspired when asked for their take on lights in the night. Happily, as the pictures shown here demonstrate, we were once again rewarded with a variety of creative responses to what is a somewhat technically demanding theme. ... [more]
Photo Challenge 38: Reflections
The Reflections Photo Challenge attracted an exceptional number of high quality entries. Indeed, we were so impressed by the high standard and large number of submissions that we decided to triple the number of pages we usually allocate to this section. And even then we had to leave a few very good pictures out of the final group. Happily we have room for the extras here on our website.  ... [more]
Photo Challenge 37: Repeat Yourself
For our 38th Photo Challenge we asked participants to seek out photogenic examples of repetition. As usual our endlessly creative correspondents delighted us with their fine and subtle interpretations of the challenge. While there was only a hair's breadth between them, we decided that this issue's winner had to be veteran Photo Challenger Roz Krugle's humorous row of school kids' feet. It would have been a very good picture if they'd all been wearing shoes, but the single pair of bare feet transformed the picture into a smile-inducing classic.  ... [more]
Photo Challenge 36: In a mono mood
Never underestimate the power of black and white. Photo Challenge 36 was all about monochrome and boy did our challengers rise to the occasion. We received a great swag of terrific entries and it was therefore exceptionally difficult to decide a winner. But, in the end, that's our task, so after much back and forth, we gave the nod to Mark Sherborne for his very subtle untitled landscape study. As a token of our appreciation, Mark will receive a Verbatim 250GB Portable Hard Drive.  ... [more]