User:MargaretRDonald/sandbox/WLE 2022 Prizes

Prizes to be as for last year, that is, $100 for any photo selected to go to the international competition. This will be a maximum of 15 if the international requirements remain the same. Plus there should also be a "filling the gaps" prize.

"Filling the gaps" prize
A prize to be awarded to the best series of photos which might illustrate:
 * different aspects of a protected area (e.g. habitats)
 * different aspects of a taxon (e.g. several photos of a plant showing leaves, fruit, flower(s), habitat, style and stigma complexity)

This prize would be awarded for the set of images which made a significant contribution to "filling the gaps". The set of images need not satisfy the international requirement for image detail, but must satisfy the protected area and other requirements. If the set concerns taxa then the taxa must be identified to at least species level. Ideally each photograph would have a detailed description.

This prize to be worth more than those awarded to the best 15 photos, perhaps $500. However should this winner also have photos amongst those selected for the international competition, he/she should get whichever is the maximum, $500 or the sum of his/her individual prizes.

Potential winner in 2021
Had a "filling the gaps" prize existed last year, Jessica Meeuwig would have been the front runner.

User:Jessica Meeuwig
Jessica Meeuwig's series of 8 photographs of fishes (taken using Baited remote underwater video) were technically not of sufficient resolution to qualify under the WLE 2021 rules. However, they made a significant contribution to filling the gaps in that one (Gould's flying squid) was the first image for the taxon to have been uploaded to the Commons. Prior to her contributions, all illustrations of taxa in the marine parks were not of animals photographed there. Thus, her uploads led to significant additions in illustrating the various marine parks in which they were taken. All eight files are used on 20 pages on 10 wikis which had 546 file views in 2021-08. Her contributions illustrated both taxa and parks.