National Forestry Day HQP Photo Competition

In honour of National Forestry Day promoting the importance of Australian forests coming up on Tuesday 22 August, we are holding a photo competition! There are three categories and $2,000 in cash prizes plus some National Forestry Day merchandise up for grabs.

We invite you to submit up to 10 images in any of the following themes:

• The beauty of HQP’s plantation forests – winning prize $500, runner up gets a National Forestry Day cap.
• Enjoying HQP’s plantation forests – winning prize $500, runner up gets a National Forestry Day cap.
• Native wildlife in HQP’s plantation or custodial native forests – winning prize $500, runner up gets a National Forestry Day beanie.

There is also an additional judge’s choice prize of $500.

Please refer to our website for conditions of entry including how to submit your images.

Happy snapping!

Conditions of entry

To enter, images taken of an HQP plantation forest of at least 2MB in size must be submitted to community@hqplantations.com.au by midday AEST 22 August 2023. Please include your contact details, the category or categories you are entering and the location/s your image/s were taken.

A maximum of 10 images may be entered by any person. HQP employees and contractors are welcome to enter.

Images may only be submitted by the person who took the photo and cannot contain watermarks. They may be edited but cannot contain elements created by artificial intelligence.

Images must be taken legally, complying with all forest operations signage, land tenure requirements, road rules, and CASA regulations for drone images. Images of people or activities must be of lawful, responsible behaviour. Photographers must obtain a release from all people or owners of vehicles that can be identified in an image.

Photographers must comply with HQP’s Commercial Activity: Photography and Filming permit requirements (only required if the number of crew and subjects exceeds 11 people, or any structures other than a tripod are used in filming, or drones exceed 2kg in weight).

By entering the competition, the photographer grants HQPlantations Pty Ltd the permission to publish the image in any HQP initiative on any platform until 30 December 2025 without compensation.

To ensure your images are taken in HQP-managed forests, refer to the interactive map on our website at www.hqplantations.com.au/plantations. When using a GPS-enabled smart phone, your location is visible on the map similar to Google or Apple maps. Themes requiring the image to be taken in HQP’s plantation forests refer to plantation pine trees not custodial native forest buffers or riparian zones.