QPL Rural Photo Competition 2022 - dust off those lenses to capture wonderous beauty of regional NSW

The popular QPL Rural Photo Competition is back on again this year for photographers of all calibre to capture the region’s beauty and have a chance to win great prizes worth more than $1500.

The 2022 competition invites residents in and around the Riverina to celebrate and showcase the natural landscapes, people and country life.

QPL Rural Real Estate sales manager Andrew Pellow said living in rural Australia gives people the chance to connect with incredible landscapes, beautiful scenery, iconic rural imagery and sometimes just plain brilliant day-to-day situations.

He said the competition started in 2021 with some fantastic entries and the real estate agency have decided to keep it going as an annual event.

“For the QPL family and our staff, involvement in real estate is more than just business,” Mr Pellow said.

“It’s about immersing ourselves in local communities and promoting a rural lifestyle while sharing the attractions of the Riverina.

“Following the success of the photo competition last year, we decided to launch the campaign this year with the biggest giveaway.”

The estate manager said the public’s response to the competition “so far has been very good”, with the agency having been flooded with entries from around the region.

QPL Rural said people are not restricted to just one entry and are invited to send as many photographs as they wish.

All finalists will have their images featured on QPL’s 2023 calendar which will be distributed to some of the real estate agency’s stakeholders and other local businesses in the community.

Mr Pellow said when living in a beautiful part of the world it is important to showcase some of the beautiful Riverina scenery, landscapes, and events we get to see often on a daily basis.

“We put our photo comp out for all to enter from the budding photographer looking to get recognition for their photography through to someone snapping a beautiful sunrise on their phone camera,” he said.

How to enter the QPL Rural Photo Competition 2022.

Upload the photograph(s) online following the competition’s terms and conditions, which include: photographer’s name, image title(s), entrant’s contact details, high-resolution image(s), and image size(s) not bigger than 10MB.

If details are not provided entries will not be accepted. The photos must be the work of the photographer and the owner of the copyright of any image submitted.

All entrants acknowledge that any photos submitted for entry into the competition may be used by QPL Rural for any future marketing/advertising purposes it chooses.

The photographs will be judged on the following criteria: the photographs must be taken in the Riverina, photographers must follow QPL Rural’s Instagram and Facebook pages, and the photographs with the maximum likes and or comments will win the prize, or QPL Rural reserves the right to decide upon which photos will be utilised; such a decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

The submission deadline for the 2022 competition is Friday, 30 September. Entries must be submitted no later than 5 pm.

The overall entry winner will receive a prize pack worth $1500.

The prize pack includes: RM Williams boots valued at $650, an Akubra hat valued at $250, a 43L domestic ice box valued at $160, QPL stubby coolers, a QPL water bottle, a QPL truckers hat, a Webber Baby Q valued at $350, a QPL gift pack valued at $100 and QPL calendars, with the winning image as the front cover.

Click here to submit your best photographs.