The results are out!

The International Results for the 4 Nations Challenge 2025 are finalised, and Team PSNZ did very well.

Our team of 80 photographers were third overall and received four Honourable Mention Awards, one Gold Award and Champion Image.

Huge Congratulations go to Rob Weir for his image “Hungry Emperor Penguin Chick” This was judged to be worthy of a Gold Award and to be declared the Champion Image.

Congratulations go also to; Nel Davison for her image “Green Eyed Beauty”, Reg Quin for his image “Variable Oyster Catcher Feeding Chick”, Suzanne Marsh for her image “Lake Wanaka”, and Janice Chen for her image “Auckland City in the Fog”. All
received Honourable Mention Awards.

The overall awards are as follows

• The Nations Award for 2025 - Canadian Association for Photographic Art - Total aggregated score of 3278 points.
• The Champion Image Award 2025 - “Hungry Emperor Penguin chick” by Rob Weir of the Photographic Society of New Zealand.
• The Gold Award Images are:
  • Monochrome - “New Horizons” by Laetitia Kenny, Photographic Society of South Africa
  • Nature - “Hungry Emperor Penguin chick” by Rob Weir, Photographic Society of New Zealand.
  • Open Colour - “Busy Bee Visiting Allium” by Philip Wong, Canadian Association for Photographic Art
  • Our Country - “Left alone” by Anton la Grange, Photographic Society of South Africa
• Honourable Mention Monochrome
  • Lucille Trépanier “De découvertes en découvertes”- CAPA
  • Patricia Sharp “Censorship”- CAPA
  • Suzanne Wacker “Brett”- APS
• Honourable Mention Nature
  • Kayla Stevenson “A Little Privacy Please”- CAPA
  • Reg Quinn “Variable Oystercatcher Feeding Chick”- PSNZ
  • Bill Cubitt “An Anhinga Having Lunch”- CAPA
• Honourable Mention Our Country
  • Suzanne Marsh “Lake Wanaka”- PSNZ
  • Janice Chen “Auckland City in the Fog”- PSNZ
  • Ben Liu “Morning Reflection”- CAPA
• Honourable Mention Open Colour
• • Nel Davison “Green Eyed Beauty”- PSNZ
  • Anita Teljeur “Sanctuary in the Tempest”- CAPA
  • John Kalley “Sheer Beauty”- CAPA
  • Andrea Lago “Milky Way With An Aurora”- APS
  • Ursula Bauman “The echoes of eternity”- PSSA

Congratulations go to not only the 5 New Zealand photographers whose images gained awards but to the 75 other PSNZ photographers whose images were selected to be in Team PSNZ. And a huge thank you goes to all the PSNZ photographers who submitted images to be considered for inclusion into Team PSNZ. You know who you are and commiserations on not being selected but take heart in the fact that you helped the PSNZ end their 5-year streak of 4th place.

All the PSNZ photographers whose images gained awards will be presented with those awards at the National Convention in Rotorua.