Queensland newspaper The Sunday Mail has been overwhelmed with the public response to its Summer Festival of Photography competition.

The newspaper began the festival at the beginning of summer (November 2009) with a series of contestable categories such as “Summer Holidays”, “Queensland in colour“, “Creature Feature” and “Water“. The final category is “Your Choice” and closes on February 1.

For some categories the paper received more than 1200 entries and the quality of many shots has made it difficult for judges to choose a winner and limit the award honours. Top entrants have their image mounted in a frame while the best 50 entries from each category go into the Hall of Fame and the winner receives a Summer Festival of Photography certificate.

All the images are meant to celebrate Queensland and the state’s amateur photographers have revealed much of Queensland’s wild, crawling, beautiful and watery sides.

Winner of the Creature Feature category went to John Van Den Broeke for his image of an osprey.

Dawn at Elanda Point was submitted by Gayle Pentland for the “Water Feature”

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