Queensland Rail Photo Competition Winner!

Keep clear of the tracks ~ Philli Overton

Last week I was thrilled to receive the news that I had won the 2024 Queensland Rail Community Photo Competition for my entry "Keep clear of the tracks."

Queensland Rail had run the 2024 photography competition in conjunction with the planned upgrades for Bundamba, Burpengary, Lindum, Morningside, Banyo and Buranda railway stations, and my winning entry taken of Banyo Station will now be enlarged onto landscape panels and incorporated as part of the new station design, serving as artwork to be enjoyed by the public for the years to come. The competition called for a black and white image that captured the suburb or station surrounds just prior to the new station build, and I thought that capturing the level crossing (from the safety of the gated pedestrian crossing between trains of course), was a worthy image of a scene that is slowly disappearing from Brisbane's urban railway landscape.

Congratulations to the other winners; Melanie Sinclair for Bundamba; Brendan Hirst for Burpengary; Glenda Markwell for Lindum; Patricia Woods for Morningside and Elenaor Deak for Buranda. Your work was amazing! (The other images can be viewed here; Queensland Rail Photo Competition Winning Entries).

It has been an amazingly transformative year for myself. One that now includes a photography award. I can't wait to see what the new Banyo Station will look like with my photograph featured as artwork and will be sure to post some pictures here when the station is re-opened later this year!

Philli O.