PHOTOGRAPHY buffs will have the chance to win unlimited access to the Xstrata Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo this year in a new competition devised to help document the event in 2013.
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Ben MacRae has been snapping portraits, action shots and nature scenes around the North West for years and was chosen by rodeo organisers to snap all the action in August.
Mr MacRae has set up a competition to scout out Mount Isa's best photography talent to find an assistant photographer to work by his side.
Entrants will be asked to email their best action shot to the Isa Rodeo office until submissions close on June 29.
Mr MacRae said each photographer would only get one chance to impress him enough to make it to the next round.
"It can be any action shot, whether it was taken at last year's rodeo, a sporting event or anything like that," he said.
"People should take their time and think about which photo they want to send to us because we're only judging one per person."
After all the photographs are judged, 10 hopefuls will proceed to the next round where they will have to submit five more images across different categories in 14 days.
The three top photographers, chosen on July 15, will fight to prove their prowess at the Quamby Rodeo on July 27 to get a taste of capturing horses, bulls and their riders in action.
Mr MacRae said to survive this round, the finalists would have to show consistency across their shots because all of their images would be reviewed before the final decision was made.
He said the winner would receive exclusive one-on-one training ahead of the event and unprecedented access to the rodeo.
"The top three will all get rodeo prize packs but the winner will get access all areas to the event, that is a prize that money can't buy for any photographer," Mr MacRae said.
Xstrata Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo manager Donna Kuskopf said entrants had to own their own DSLR camera, be available for the Quamby Rodeo in July and Isa Rodeo in August and live in the Mount Isa region (including Cloncurry and Camooweal) to enter.
"This is an awesome opportunity for someone interested in photography to work with Ben but also to document the largest rodeo in the southern hemisphere," she said.