Alright of us, time is ticking to get your entry into MOMENTS and have a crack at profitable $3000 cashola. Don’t snooze on it – entries shut on the fifteenth of August!
If that is the primary you’re listening to of this, welcome, are available, sit. Let me give a fast rundown on what I’m yapping about.
MOMENTS is We Are Explorer’s inaugural photograph, video, and writing competitors, through which we’re celebrating the creativity and adventurous spirit of our neighborhood during the last decade (yep, we’ve been round that lengthy!).
With 5 classes to enter – Dometic Journey Photograph, Bush Heritage Nature Photograph, Freely Journey Writing, G Adventures Video, and Up Cellphone Photograph – you may choose your poison and enter as many occasions as you want.
Every entry prices $10 and goes in the direction of working the comp and the prize cash!
The 5 entries with probably the most votes in every class will probably be proven to our skilled panel of judges who’ll make the ultimate name on the winner.
Don’t waste one other day, make your submission now! And don’t neglect to vote in your favourites as nicely. You possibly can vote as many occasions as you want.
We’ve had some ripper entries to this point with tales and snaps from throughout Australia and throughout the globe. Listed here are a number of fan faves!
Test Out Some Favorite MOMENTS Entries
Bush Heritage Nature Photograph
Intricacies of a Beast
By Hamish Harty
Veins of Life
By Mackenzie Logan
Freely Journey Writing
Don’t E-book With Us Once more
By Kate Reynolds
‘It’s simply the 2 of us, plus our information – if you happen to don’t rely the 5 humpbacks ‘mobbing’ us. I’d booked the ‘Kayak with dolphins’ tour for my husband’s birthday, and we knew being July, there’d be a excessive probability of recognizing a migrating whale on our journey. We couldn’t have ever dreamed of this, although.
“Does this happen much?” I yell out to Lynchy, our effervescent information who’s as a lot a surfy Byronite as you may get, regardless of rising up in Emu Plains.
“Nah!” He shouts again, earlier than pointing behind us. “She’s coming back!” And certainly, mama and calf beeline in the direction of us. We watch in silence as they dive beneath.
It’s surreal, I acknowledge, however there’s one thing I can’t fairly put my finger on that’s making this encounter all of the extra particular.
The whales begin to transfer away from us, however as if we’ve dropped some salacious gossip at a cocktail party, they quickly meander again.
All of that is on their phrases, I realise. We merely paddled out to sea, and the whales determined we will need to have been attention-grabbing sufficient to come back examine for a better look. This was not a human-manipulated encounter, like so many wildlife actions are. This was whale-initiated.’
Unmoored by Invisible Forces
By Ivy Stanton
‘A tempest, as if summoned by the mischievous gods of climate, descended upon the height. Winds roared with a fury, gusts reaching 60kmph, as if the mountain had been woke up with rage.
Ivy woke as much as the sound of the tent battling the weather, flapping, shaking, screaming. And within the mist of audio chaos, the squeak of their tent zipper opened, revealing Emmas terrified, frozen, face. ‘I need help’ she alarmed.
They clamber outdoors to evaluate the scenario, her tent poles had snapped like bones. It was on this second they realised that tenting on an uncovered summit, near the sting of a sheer cliff drop, was not the neatest thought that they had had.
After which, as if the god of wind agreed with their mediocracy, it took yet another mighty breath, and Emmas tent, unmoored by the invisible forces, remodeled right into a haphazard sail. It took flight, a vibrant speck in opposition to the night time sky, trailing a ribbon of chaos. Laura and Ivy, clutching their remaining tent as in the event that they had been sacred relics, watched in disbelief.
“Holy shit, your tent’s a dragon!” Ivy shouted via the cacophony, her voice struggling to compete with the gale. Emma, now watching her tent riffle down the mountain, may solely chortle as her shelter waltzed away into the darkness.’
Up Cellphone Photograph
Into the Night time
By Chris Fletcher
Underground
By Alex Motyka
G Adventures Video
South Australian Circuit Breaker
By Aidan Mair
Yosemate
By Tim Winterflood
Dometic Journey Photograph
Main Sendage
By Kat Hayhoe
Greatest Seat within the Home
By Rob Embury
