Below is a list of the theme, overall and portfolio winners.

Theme Winners

Theme	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place
Droplets	30) David Warnock	61) Pirra Elford	64) Leigh Taafe
Self Portrait	34) Geoffrey Jones	52) Louisa Kelland	23) Shanx Bose
Shades of Grey	16) Debbie Hartley	39) Lynne Cousins	Lyndal Keen
Dreams in Colour	14) Tom Corra	16) Debbie Hartley	49) Carlyle Bremner
Depth of Field	64) Leigh Taafe	23) Shanx Bose	7) Kylee Sharples
Carbon Footprint	16) Debbie Hartley	86) Delene White	2) Amy Baxendale
My Participant Number	7) Kylee Sharples	Lyndal Keen	9) Toni Keen
Modern Family	7) Kylee Sharples	58) Loi Nguyen	94) Nathan J Lester
Symmetry	7) Kylee Sharples	51) Jaylee Lewis	21) Carly Taylor
True Blue	68) Rebecca Katic	7) Kylee Sharples	34) Geoffrey Jones
Change of Pace	2) Amy Baxendale	67) Nina Tien	86) Delene White
As Nature Intended	16) Debbie Hartley	52) Louisa Kelland	72) Karen Lees

Overall best photo entry

Portfolio Winners

Congratulations! You have just completed the 2012 Canberra Photo Marathon. What a day! We hope you had a great time and thank you again for your participation this year.

Winning Categories

The categories for this year’s winners are:

• The best portfolio (1st, 2nd and 3rd place)
• Theme winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each theme)

What’s Next?

1. The Photo Marathon team will collate and organize all the participants photos for the judging after the day of the event (usually takes about 6 weeks)
2. Winners will be revealed online on 14 May 2012 via website, Facebook Page and Twitter (@canberraPM). We will reveal only the names of the winners. If you like to see the winning photos you are welcome to see them in our Canberra Photo Marathon Exhibition at Canberra Centre
3. 2012 Canberra Photo Marathon Exhibition will be held in Canberra Centre (Upper Floor, near Dymocks and RM Williams store) from 14 to 27 May 2012. Every photo will be printed individually in size 6×4 inches on the highest quality prints possible

Still have energy after a long day? Why not head off to Milk and Honey (29 Garema Place, Bunda St) to share our tales for the day with fellow participants and Photo Marathon Team. We hope to see you there!

Follow us on twitter @canberraPM or watch our Facebook Page for updates on winners and exhibition.

7. Your Participation Number
8. Modern Family
9. Symmetry
10. True Blue
11. Change of Pace
12. As Nature Intended

Finish Waypoint
ActewAGL House, Ground Fl, 40 Bunda Street. All participants must hand in their final images IN PERSON at the Finish Waypoint between 6.30-8.10PM tonight.

Information about places to park in the city and adjacent area can be found here.

For assistance on Photo Marathon day:
follow and tweet us @canberraPM (mention us your question and we will promptly reply)
or, contact Chris: 0414423050

Important Reminders

1. All participants must arrive at the Finish Waypoint by between 6.30-8.10PM tonight
2. No off camera editing is allowed (NO Photoshopping)
3. All Images must be saved in JPEG RGB format ONLY (No RAW Images)
4. Images will be downloaded to computers by Canberra Photo Marathon volunteers
5. Earth Hour is 8.30-9.30PM tonight so there will be NO lights in the hour
6. Still have energy after a long day? Why not heading off to Milk and Honey (29 Garema Place, Bunda St) to share our tales for the day with fellow participants and Photo Marathon Team. We hope to see you there!

Welcome to 2012 Canberra Photo Marathon. Here are your first 6 themes for the day.

1. Droplets
2. Self Portrait
3. Shades of Grey
4. Dreams in Color
5. Depth of Field
6. Carbon Footprint

You can reach Black Mountain Tower by car, from the Black Mountain Drive turn-off, on Clunies Ross Street, near the entrance to the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

ATTENTION PLEASE: There will be a Group Photo of all participants taken at 2PM at the Tower. This Group Photo is optional but it will be great to have more of you there.

For assistance on Photo Marathon day:
follow and tweet us @canberraPM (mention us your question and we will promptly reply)
or, contact Chris: 0414423050

Please remember to take the photos in the order of the themes.

Good luck and have fun out there!!!

• David Warnock (wins the Walk and Talk about Photography Tours)
• Justine White (wins the Walk and Talk about Photography Tours)
• Louise Brooks (wins the Digital Photography in a Day)

All prizes are sponsored by Canberra School of Photography. The Canberra Photo Marathon Team will send all the winners emails for further detail. CONGRATULATIONS!

We are excited to share the details of this year’s exhibition with you!

What is the event? It is a Photo Exhibition showing ALL photos by participants of 2012 Canberra Photo Marathon
Where? Upper Floor, Canberra Centre near the Dymocks and R.M. Williams stores
When? 14 May-27 May 2012

Every photo will be printed individually in size 6×4 inches on the highest quality prints possible, courtesy of  Ted’s Camera. The winning photos will be displayed on a larger format to help show them off.

This means that each participant will again have their 12 photos exhibited but this time more than 10,000 shoppers are expected to pass by the exhibition!

Are you excited? We hope to see you there…

Big thanks to Canberra Centre and Ted’s Camera who help making this photo exhibition possible.

This year our long friend and past winner Debbie Hartley was very generous in giving us time to chat with us. Debbie was the 2010 portfolio winner and this year will be her third photo marathon. She’s very excited for this year’s event and so are we. Read our chat for some tips that might prove valuable to you on the 31 of March.

Welcome back, Debbie, it’s good to have you back this year. Tell us what does photo marathon mean to you as an accomplished photographer?
I love the personal challenge that the photo marathon presents to me. The excitement of discovering what themes have been chosen and how they may be interpreted, not only by me but all the photographers. The photo marathon really gets the creativity working and that’s what I enjoy the most! I hear that the date has been announced as the 31 March and I have already entered and blocked that day out on my calendar!

What was the best thing for you in your photo marathon experience?
I think that having to push myself to think of an idea for a theme in a short amount of time is exciting for me. Normally I will take days to come up with theme photos for other projects, but having to do it quickly and in order really gets your adrenalin going and your mind working!

Do you think photo marathon is too challenging for newbie photographers? We know there are a lot of newbie photographers who are sitting on the fence, still thinking whether this event is way out of their league.
The photo marathon is for everyone, and it is definitely not out of anyones league! If you love taking photos and have a camera then you should participate! You dont have to be a seasoned photographer with an expensive camera, some of the best shots come from photographers just starting out with a point and shoot camera.

Did you do any special preparation before the day?
Nothing special. I will do things like check my camera settings, and also check the time and date in my camera. I make sure all batteries are charged and memory cards are formatted and I also clean my lenses if they need it. That’s about all I do before the day. The night before the photo marathon I try to have a good nights sleep, although usually this doesn’t happen because of the excitement of the day ahead, and I am always nervous that I will sleep through the alarm!

Were you working on the themes yourself or did you recruit friends/family to help you out?
In my first year I had not only the moral support from my partner, daughter and granddaughter but they also assisted with holding things and also appearing in my images, and they didnt complain too much!. Last year I had no helpers and I worked alone and that was ok too.

Any advice (or pre warning) for partner/family/friends who accompany participants on the day?
Be helpful if needed and make sure that you provide food and drink at regular intervals – after all it is a marathon!

In a scale of 1-10 how fun was the past photo marathon for you?
I would have to say 10+.

Any expectations on this year’s photo marathon? Are you anxious to know what the themes are?
I dont usually have any expectations, only that I want to take photos that I am happy with and get them all done on time! Last year I finished my last photo with about 1/2 hour to spare, and I still had to get to the final meeting place to have them entered. I think I was more anxious about getting my photos in on time than I was taking them! I am always excited to find out what the themes are. When an idea for a theme comes to mind I just go with it. There is not a lot of time for each image, and there is always pressure when you have to do a photograph for each theme in the order that they appear on the list. I know last year when I was out and about I saw a lot of ideas for images for certain themes, but I couldn’t use those ideas as I still had other theme photos to do first!

You were taking the first prize for the best portfolio in 2010, any tips you’d like to share?
I dont really have any tips about how to win, I think just have fun enjoy the day and you never know you may have taken that winning pic! It helps to be at the meeting place earlier, because then you have more time to interpret a theme! Remember, you’ve to to be in it to win it!

Debbie, thank you so much for your time!
My pleasure.

That’s it folks. You have to be in it to win it. It is 17 days to go. If you haven’t registered already please do so, and for those who have we’ll see you soon.

Click Debbie Hartley Photography to check out her work.

• 1x Digital Photography in a Day (worth $250)
• 2x Walk and Talk about Photography Tours (worth $150 each)

Another great reason to enter the event and register NOW!

Canberra School of Photography was established by profesional photographer Irene Lorbergs (AIPP accredited) in 1992. The school aims to provide rapid learning in photography with emphasise in application of theory and techniques. A wide selection of courses are available to suit the needs for photographers – novice and skilled- to sharpen their craft.

Learning is a process and in photography it will never end. Click Canberra School of Photography to check out photography courses suitable for you.

To qualify for the lucky draw you need to be registered for the Photo Marathon by 20 March 2012. Those who have already registered for this year’s Canberra Photo Marathon automatically qualify for this lucky draw. The winners will be announced on 21 March 2012 in Photo Marathon’s Facebook Page and Twitter (@CanberraPM).

Alto Restaurant will give a FREE dining experience for FOUR persons worth $600 for one of the winners of 2012 Canberra Photo Marathon.

For reservations call 02 6247 5518, or visit their website here.

The Tower’s 360 degree observation deck provides a magnificent day and night view over the city of Canberra. For those who loves the feel of the wind blowing over their hair can step outside on their viewing platform and enjoy the view of the Nation’s Capital from up above. There is Panorama Kiosk (at level 5) for visitors wanting to have simple snacks, lunch, or coffee while enjoying the 360 degree outlook.

The Black Mountain Tower gives FREE admittance to go up the tower to all the 2012 Canberra Photo Marathon participants AND up to two ‘assistants’ who tag along during the photo marathon day.

The opening hours are 9AM to 10PM. Visit Black Mountain Tower website for more info about the tower.

The Canberra Lens Rental will give the winner ONE week FREE rental of Nikon D3S your own choice of lens + all the other required ancillaries.

The team at Canberra Lens Rental will be ready on the photo marathon day to lend a hand and support our participants. In celebration of their launch, all online bookings will get 15% off! Offer ends 1st of March 2012. Let’s give them our warm welcome.

For this year’s event Lowepro generously gives around $2,000 worth of products as prizes for the winners. Here are the prizes:

• 3 Pro Roller Lite 25o (RRP $349 each)
• 12 Event Messenger 250 (RRP$79 each)

Product Details:

Pro Roller Lite 25o

Event Messenger 25o