Below is a list of the theme, overall, people’s choice and portfolio winners.

Theme Winners

Overall best photo entry

Peoples choice

Portfolio Winners

Parking and access can best be found from Alexander Street.

The Show Case is a gallery exhibition featuring all the contestants’ entries (over 1,400 photos) along with a award ceremony starting at 6pm.

We hope you can join us on the night to compare and share your photos with friends and family.

7. A New Perspective
8. Bread and Butter
9. Procrastination
10. Concrete Jungle
11. Black and White
12. Twilight

The Final Way Point will be on the ground floor of ActewAGL House, 40 Bunda street from 6:30pm till 8:30pm. Please try and arrive before 8:00pm.

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1. Your Participant Number
2. Life’s a Journey
3. A Moment in Time
4. This is Me
5. No Worries
6. Free Range

Best of luck and enjoy.

The lunch Way Point will be at the front entrance of Cocking Green Gardens from 12:30pm till 14:30pm.

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The map shows the IP locations of all the tickets sold to the date of posting.

With the support from our partners tickets offer more value than ever before. There are still tickets available so don’t forget to invite your friends to come along.

The 2011 Canberra – Photo Marathon is just around the corner so it is time to announce what prizes are up for grabs.

• The new Tamron 18-270 F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD lens RRP $849

• 3x Lowepro Versapack 200 AW RRP$169 each

• 3x Lowepro Compuday Photo 250 RRP $119 each

• 1x Cockington Green Gardens – 12 Month Family Multi Pass worth $100

• 12x Cockington Green Gardens – Family General Admissions worth $49 each

• 12 x Photo Review eMagazine 1 year  (4 issue) subscriptions worth $20 each

Visit our Prizes page for more information.

On our side we have been buzzing along to get the perfect locations, sponsors and prizes all ready for Canberra’s second photomarathon and there are still heaps of surprizes to be revealed….

With Cockington Green Garden’s opening their gates for this year’s photo marathon, tickets represent more value than ever.

We’re super excited to meet this year’s competitors and join you for a full-on, fun-packed and definitely challenging day!

We’ll soon be revealing some of our other locations and sponsors so look out for these in the next posts.

Get you tickets now to avoid any disppointment!

Free! entry (worth $35) will be granted to each of the photo-marathoners as well as one guest tagging along on the day. A further 20% discount will also be granted to any additional guests.

Entry will be from 9.30am with Last Entry time 4.15pm and viewing available until 5.00pm, giving you every opportunity to get the winning shot.

To celebrate this, Cockington Green Gardens have also announced that they will be providing a 12 Month Family Multi Pass (worth $100) to the winner of the best portfolio category and a Family Pass (worth $49) for the winners of each of the themes.

Cockington Green Gardens is one of Canberra’s premier tourist destination and will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the 2011 Canberra – Photo Marathon.

Well I dragged myself out of bed, to be at the first waypoint by 7:00am to collect my first six themes for the day. Easy enough you might say, but not really. There were strings attached! The photos had to be taken in the order that they appeared on the list. The memory card in your camera was to have only the 12 final entries on it at the end of the day for uploading to the computers at the finish waypoint. No photoshopping was allowed, and only photos taken in the time frame were eligible. Entrants also had to return to the 2nd waypoint between 1:30pm and 2:15pm to collect the final six themes. There were other rules, but as I dont partake in criminal activity or take nude photos, that was ok.

I arrived at the starting waypoint and received my first list of six themes. I read each of the themes with anticipation and excitement, my brain went into overload as I tried to think of creative ways to photograph each theme. The first six themes were:

• Your entry number (you guessed it I was entrant 44!)
• Can’t live without it
• Evolution
• Light
• The 5th element
• Upside down

So off I set to begin my photo marathon. And marathon it was. I began taking images at approx 10:00am, as I did have other commitments in the morning. Luckily I had nearly all the items on hand (yes, even the chocolate which I had not yet eaten!) that I thought I might be able to create something out of. The morning was somewhat of a blur. I was frustrated, excited, tired and my brain was in a whirl as I tried to think of ideas for the first six themes. At one stage I nearly pulled out of the comp because I thought it was all too hard, but I then realised that this was meant to be a fun exercise, and I stopped putting pressure on myself and began doing what I like to do. Photograph!

Now my next problem was that I was on a limited time frame. I had to complete all of the themes by 4:00pm – ready to hand in at 7:15pm – as I was to be at a wedding at this time. So my shooting time went from 12 hours to 6 hours – normally I can spend a couple of days on one idea, let alone 6 hours on 12 ideas! And to make matters worse, I took way too many photos of each of the first six themes (about 550 all up) and had to reduce my memory card to six images only. Oh the things we learn! Well, 1:15pm was fast approaching and I had to find the 2nd waypoint and collect my next six themes.

Off I went to the 2nd waypoint, driven by my very patient partner, and I collected my next six themes. They were:

• A thousand words
• Raw emotions
• Walkabout
• Larger than life
•  Heart of a nation
• Earth Hour – Every Hour

Once again my mind was a whirl, but this time, as I was running out of time, I photographed the first thing that came to mind for each theme, and I also took about 10 images for each them so I would have less to delete. I completed all theme photos by 4:00pm! And I made the wedding on time!

At 7:15pm I took my carefully guarded memory card, with my 12 precious images on it, and had it downloaded at the finish waypoint. I was relieved that it was over, and excited that I had got through the day with a mimimum of frustration. I did it!

I couldn’t wait until the Photo Marathon Showcase party, when all the winners will be announced, but mostly because I couldn’t wait to see how 125 other photographers have interpreted each theme, and also to hear their stories of how they enjoyed the day.

I must make special mention of my partner and daughter. They both “cheered” me on throughout the day, cleaned up the messes I made with raw egg, melted chocolate (that was easy my daughter volunteered to eat it), bubbles, cake crumbs, red paint – which remains on my driveway – permanently – (well, the bottle said it would wash off!) and melted wax. Oh, and they also put the fire out when I was melting wax on the stove (but that’s another story!)

Finally I would like to say, the 2010 Canberra Photo Marathon ran smoothly from start to finish and I congratulate the organisers for a very well run exciting event.

Would I do it again? Hell yeah!!

To celebrate this we decided to release the “February Special” registration tickets ahead of schedule.
 The ticket types available are:

• February Special – Standard Tickets:            $42.50 (at Team Combo rates)
• February Special – Team Combo Tickets:    $38.50

These offers will be available untill 11:45 PM, 28 February 2011 and be limited to a 100 tickets only. Thanks to everyone who are spreading  the word and to everyone who has already signed up . We are looking forward to see you on the morning of the event!