President Keith Ward reported that over 100 people came through the doors of the Old Court House in Murrumburrah last weekend for the Harden Murrumburrah Camera Club 2026 Photographic Exhibition. The number included HMCC members, Hilltops Deputy Mayor, Tony Flanery with many locals and visitors.
This year the club received 210 entries for the competition.
The Champion Print went to Eric Anderson from Tasmania. The prize money was $150.
The Connie McFadyen Perpetual Trophy went to Alison Deale (pictured right) and was presented by Hilltops Deputy Mayor, Tony Flanery.
The trophy is awarded based on the photographer with the most awards – 1st, 2nd & Highly Commended – weighted points.
The Junior Section was won by Damon Peet
$50 was awarded for the Champion Print.
Prize money is $50 for 1st place and $25 for 2nd place.
Topics for this year’s competition were: Action/Sport/Movement; Animals; Architecture; Birds; Land/Water/Gardenscape. Other categories were: Local Entrant – any subject; Macro/Closeup; Monochrome any other subject; Monochrome People; Open; People.
The Camera Club formed just over twenty years ago. The group meet monthly except in January and have a monthly competition whereby a topic is chosen and members present 3 images. In an open category (enlargements) 2 images are presented in the monthly competition.
The club have outings during year – Keith said that “this year we went to Burrinjuck Dam and Currawong property.”
Current membership is around a dozen.
Keith hinted that the club is exploring new topics for the 2027 exhibition.
For those people who could not make it to the exhibition, the Harden Murrumburrah Camera Club have uploaded many photographs to their Facebook page for you to enjoy. Also on the page are the list of categories with the prize winners.
Robyn Atherton
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