WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
My Upper Yarra 2025 Community Calendar Competition
The votes are all in and the winners have been decided from our annual Online Photographic Exhibition “My Upper Yarra” and the associated Competition to find 12 winning images for our Community Bank Calendar.
We have been treated to an amazing array of local photos by locals – 85 in all with 17 of them taken by some very talented U18s, and extend our sincere thanks to all entrants.
Congratulations to the 12 lucky Winners, in the Honour Roll below, whose photos will grace the pages of our 2025 Community Bank Calendar. It promises to be a very special commemorative edition as we celebrate 25 years of Community Bank 2000-2025, and we look forward to sharing it with you! A great reflection and celebration of YOUR Local Community!
In closing special thanks to our local Community Judges – Kate Baker, Paul X Stoney and Cr Jim Child Yarra Ranges Council, for once again joining us; all the Voters out there and all those who visited our Online Exhibition.
Again we hope that you have enjoyed our Exhibition and look forward to the arrival of our FREE 2025 Community Calendar. By the Community, for the Community!
-Kristy Sumner, Senior Branch Manager Community Banks Warburton & Yarra Junction-
The Honour Roll
| Judges’ Choice | Winner | Magenta Snowstorm | Maya Ward |
| Runner Up | Finding magic in the garden | Gathoni Kinyanjui-Howard | |
| U18 Winner | Face Off | Rei Muramatsu | |
| U18 Runner Up | Golden Canopy | Peyton Morrissey | |
| Peoples’ Choice(Voting by the public) | Winner | Winter Sunset | Amanda Livingstone |
| Second | Rainbow Lorikeet pair | Finn Saurine | |
| Third | Valley Worker | Pearl Saurine | |
| Community Bank Staff Choice | Winner | Moss in a Tree | Ariskar Dove |
| Highly Commended (Combination of Judges’ and Public voting) | Highly Commended | Valley Autumn | Graeme Edwards |
| Highly Commended | Aurora comes to town | Rose Sherriff | |
| Highly Commended | Winter in Summer | Ossian Heenan | |
| Highly Commended | Wide Reflections | Tony Kuc |
Our Winners Gallery
Judges’ Choice
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- Winner – Magenta Snowstorm by Maya Ward
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- Runner Up – Finding Magic in the Garden by Gathoni Kinyanjui-Howard
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- Under 18 Winner – Face Off by Rei Muramatsu
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- Under 18 Runner Up – Golden Canopy by Peyton Morrissey
Peoples’ Choice
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- Winter Sunset by Amanda Livingstone
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- Rainbow Lorikeet Pair by Finn Saurine
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- Valley Worker by Pearl Saurine
Community Bank Staff Choice
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- Moss in a Tree by Ariskar Dove
Highly Commended
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- Valley Autumn by Graeme Edwards
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- Aurora comes to Town by Rose Sherriff
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- Winter in Summer by Ossian Heenan (U18)
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- Wide Reflection by Tony Kuc
Thank you!
Our heartfelt thanks are extended to the following community contributors! Without you there would be no exhibition or community calendar for us to enjoy. Local photos by Locals.
Aidan Tsoumbakos, Amanda Livingstone, Ariskar Dove, Bailey Olcorn, Bert Pelgrim, Carolyn Peeler, Catherine Aulich, Diana Southwick, Elizabeth Stedwell, Emilie Alcato, Erica Randall, Ester Harding, Finn Saurine, Fiona Kirwan, Gary Mory, Gathoni Kinyanjui-Howard, Gemma Dearden, Graeme Edwards, Heather Walker, Julie Ward, Katie Gatward, Larry Lawson, Marli Lawson, Martha Frey-Furrer, Matis Heenan, Maya Ward, Melissa Vuyst, Mike Randall, Nicole Murray, Noelene Davidson, Ossian Heenan, Paige Harvey, Pearl Saurine, Peter Downey, Peyton Morrissey, Phil Pomaroff, Rachel Flanagan, Rei Muramatsu, Robert Hudson, Rose Hoult, Rose Sherriff, Sam Gill, Theo Howard, Thomas Osburg, Tony Kuc, Zoe Waldron
We will announce the arrival of our 2025 Community Calendar in branch, here and on our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/communitybankwarburtonyarrajunction
Expected arrival late November 2024
Celebrating YOUR Community