Marlborough Photographer wins family farming photo comp

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10 March 2015

Marlborough Photographer wins Rural Women/MPI family farming photo competition

Inspired by her idyllic surroundings deep in the Marlborough Sounds, keen amateur photographer Marion Day has been chosen as the winner of the Rural Women New Zealand/MPI photo competition, with her portfolio of family farming photos.

She was presented with her certificate and book prize by Barbara Kuriger, MP for Taranaki, on behalf of the Minister for Primary Industries, Hon. Nathan Guy, at an award ceremony at Parliament today.

The photo competition was run by Rural Women™ as part of the UN International Year of Family Farming, in partnership with MPI.

“Our aim was to encourage people to take photos showing the special place that family farming holds in New Zealand, through visual imagery,” says Rural Women national president, Wendy McGowan.

Over 100 photos were submitted.

Marion says she is always reaching for her camera, inspired by the ever changing moods of Clova Bay and the remote outer Sounds, which she describes as “an amazing creation of inland waterways, mountains and unspoilt wilderness.”

As an amateur photographer she considers herself lucky.

“Because I live amongst such natural beauty and splendour, where mountains anchor into the sea and their peaks pierce the sky, and where the light changes constantly, it’s nearly impossible to take a bad photograph!”

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