Summer Story and Photo Competition

Send us a short story (150 words or less) and photos of your favourite Greater Hobart Trail. There are some great prizes to be won for the best entries.

Greater Hobart Trails wants to hear from you, locals and visitors alike, to find out which track or trail, forest or coastal walk, bushland stroll or even bushland park means the most to you.

It could be the fern glade walk in the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington, or a track that takes you through the native saltmarshes in flower along the Derwent in Brighton.

There are a range of walks in the Greater Hobart region to suit everyone, from easy walks for the whole family to more challenging tracks for the experienced bushwalker.

Some of these places have an emotional pull for us, for others it is about the thrill of a mountain bike ride, time with our family or the spectacular views afforded from our favourite trail.

So tell us, in 150 words or less, where your favourite walk, run or ride is and what makes it so special for you. Your favourite track and place must be listed on the Greater Hobart Trails website and as part of your entry we would love to see photos of you on the track.

When you’ve entered, please share your photos on social media and tag Greater Hobart Trails @greaterhobarttrails so we can share them too.

Thank you Mountain Creek, Teros, Find Your Feet, City of Hobart and Kingborough Council for these amazing prizes!

  • SixSixOne Recon Scout helmet – Teros
  • Osprey Transporter Zip top 32 litre Daypack – Mountain Creek
  • OnePlanet duffel bag – Find Your Feet
  • 2 x CamelBak Chute Mag bottles – Mountain Creek
  • 2 x Osprey 2.5l water bladders – Mountain Creek
  • Aquatic Centre and Bushland Adventures vouchers – City of Hobart
  • Walking tour voucher – Kingborough Council
Enter below

Terms and Conditions of Entry

Images

  1. The organisers reserve the right to request original unedited image files including RAW files.
  2. Images must have been captured on or after 1 January 2023.
  3. Image dimensions: Images should be at least 2,500 pixels on the longest edge.
  4. All works are required in landscape orientation to be exhibited horizontally.
  5. If you are capturing images that contain people, you should not be able to see their faces and/or they should not be identifiable. If you can identify people or their face is visible, you must have their permission to take the photo and enter it into this competition (preferably in writing).
  6. Entrants retain copyright of their images. By entering the competition the entrant provides Derwent Estuary Program with a non-exclusive license to distribute and publish your photo for marketing and promotional purposes. Images will be credited with the name of the photographer when used in any promotion.
  7. The entrant must be the creator of all elements in their submitted images. Any post-production and editing must be the work of the entrant.
  8. Images should not include watermarks or other branding. The competition organiser reserves the right to disqualify any entry with a watermark or other branding.
  9. Please ensure your images are of sufficiently high quality and are well-exposed, sharp and clear with good contrast for reproduction and printing

General

  1. Derwent Estuary Program staff members and members of the Derwent Estuary Program Tracks Working Group are welcome to enter the competition, but are not eligible to win a prize.
  2. The entrant indemnifies Derwent Estuary Program against any claim, legal or otherwise, that may arise out of the publication of images.
  3. By entering images into this competition the entrant guarantees to Derwent Estuary Program that all of the above Terms and Conditions have been met.
  4. Competition entrants do not need to live in Greater Hobart

Closing Date

  1. Closing date for entries is Friday, 31 March 2023.

Judging

  1. A panel of judges will review the entries
  2. Judges’ decisions are final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
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