Winners announced !
CAPIM recently held a photo competition, calling on novice and junior photographers to share their lens on pollution. The judging panel were impressed with the caliber and diversity of entries. The winners share $600 prize money. Thank you to everyone that entered the competition.
Winners: Novice Category
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1st PLACE WINNER: Jennifer Williams. No signs of life post-industrial spill, Cherry Lake Altona. 
2nd PLACE WINNER: Brad Lewis. Industrial Rubbish, freeway drain, Dingley Village. 
Equal 3rd PLACE WINNER: Clare Walter. Pollution blanket, Brighton. 
Equal 3rd PLACE WINNER: Dean Schrieke. Pollution flowing in to Edgar’s Creek from stormwater drain connecting to nearby industrial estate, Edgar’s Creek, Reservoir.
Winners:
1st place: Jennifer Williams
2nd place: Brad Lewis
Equal 3rd place: Dean Schrieke and Clare Walter
Winners: Junior Category (under 18)
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1st PLACE WINNER: Kayla Sekhon. My School, Templestowe. 
2nd PLACE WINNER: Yining Chen. River pollution, plastic lunch box.
Winners:
1st place: Kayla Sekhon
2nd place: Yining Chen
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Thank you to all the CAPIM photo competition entrants.
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River pollution. Photographer: Yining Chen. 
Pollution by the sea. Photographer: Yining Chen. 
Copper, Zinc and Lead contamination in Captains Flat tailings – a legacy of mining, Captains Flat, NSW. Photographer: Tona Sanchez Palacios. 
Yes, we all love coffee but please be mindful of how you dispose the cups, Creswick, Victoria. Photographer: Sachinthani Karunarathne. 
Asbestos sheets under a tree trunk. Pretty ironic to see a divided tree, Creswick, Victoria. Photographer: Sachinthani Karunarathne. 
Plastic autoclave bags containing biohazard lab waste. This includes plastic gloves and tubes too. We can kill the microorganism used but what about plastics in lab waste? Creswick, Victoria. Photographer: Sachinthani Karunarathne. 
Inescapable smoke above the Australian landscape, Mackay, Queensland. Photographer: Maria Paula Hernandez Ruiz. 
Plastics ingested during at-sea foraging by a single Flesh-Footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) arranged in the shape of this bird sitting. 104 plastic pieces were removed from the stomach of one dead bird on the remote Lord Howe Island, NSW. Photographer: Gabrielle Henderson. 
Plastic ingested during at-sea foraging by a single Flesh-Footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes) arranged in the shape of this bird soaring across the sky. 131 plastic pieces were removed from the stomach of one dead bird on Lord Howe Island, NSW. Photographer: Gabrielle Henderson. 
Overwhelming stench of death, Cherry Lake Altona. Photographer: Jennifer Williams. 
Photo I took at my school during a pollution project, Templestowe. Photographer: Kayla Sekhon. 
Fungi and cigarettes on dead wood, Ross Creek, Victoria. Photographer: Lilly Mclean. 
Pollution behind a catamaran departing the Great Barrier Reef, Hardy Reef, Queensland. Photographer: Maria Paula Hernandez Ruiz. 
Polluted water streaming from the open cut coal mine in Morwell, Victoria. Photographer: Maria Paula Hernandez Ruiz. 
Plastics ingested during at-sea foraging by a single Flesh-Footed Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes). 222 plastic pieces were removed from the stomach of one beach-washed dead bird on the remote Lord Howe Island, NSW. Photographer: Gabrielle Henderson. 
The scourge of unnecessary disposable plastic water bottles, South Yarra, Victoria. Photographer: Fiona Bachmann. 
A house on fire. Photographer: Dona Thushari Wijesinghe. 
A house on fire. Photographer: Dona Thushari Wijesinghe. 
Water pollution algal growth. Photographer: Dona Thushari Wijesinghe. 
Double exposure of dead pigeon floating in drum of waste oil and domestic backyard setting. Juxtaposition of mundane urban life and its ecological outcome, Reservoir, Victoria. Photographer: Dean Schrieke. 
Double exposure of United Brewery chimney. Beer is yum but it’s a socio-ecological pollutant, United Brewery, Abbotsford. Photographer: Dean Schrieke. 
Sometimes we live with pollution without realizing it unless we look at it from another perspective, Melbourne. Photographer: Alejandro Mardones. 
Rubbish in drain along new freeway, Dingley Village. Photographer: Brad Lewis. 
Fuel pipes through forest, Queenstown, Tasmania. Photographer: Christian Theodosiou.
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