All members of the Horticultural Media Association Australia are invited to submit entries to:
The Joy Harland Memorial Photographic Competition 2025.
Entries are to be made via this website between Now and Februrary 9, 2025 (entries close at midnight EDST).
The competition is peer-voted by HMAA members only.
Voting commences on February 10 until March 3 (voting closes at midnight EDST).
Winners announced and awards made on March 25 at a dinner in association with the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.
The competition includes six categories:
- Macro
- Beautiful Plants
- Mystical Trees
- Creative Imagery
- Garden Inspiration
- People in Horticulture
One winner will be declared in each category. The winner of each category receives a trophy.
The prizes are sponsored by HMA through HMA Vic, HMA NSW, HMA Qld, HMA SA and HMA WA.
The competition, conducted every two years, commemorates the photographic talent of the late Joy Harland. Joy is best remembered for her passion and excellence in horticultural photography. Her friend and colleague Tony Fawcett, an HMA Victoria Life Member, shares her poignant story in ‘Remembering Joy’.
Originally photographs entered in this competition were used for HMA News covers. Now the printed magazine is no longer produced, images submitted may be used on the HMAA website and social media platforms. HMAA will not use them commercially. Copyright remains with the photographer.
Guidelines:
- Entries are restricted to current HMAA members
- Images (maximum 1mb) need to be submitted via the HMAA website in jpeg (*.jpg) format.
- The contributing HMAA member must own the copyright of the images submitted.
- Images must have been captured since January 1, 2024.
- The organising committee reserves the right to use any of the submitted images on the HMAA website and social media.
- Innovation and creativity will be essential criteria in selecting the finalists.
- Each entrant can enter up to an overall total of four images, which can be entered into in any one category or spread over categories. Each image can be entered only once.
- For judging purposes, entries will be identified by number only.
- Winners announced and awards made on March 25 at MIFGS.
To Enter…
Do these steps for each category you wish to enter
Step 1: UPLOAD YOUR IMAGE
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