Ozstar Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 (edited) Some photos taken from our local Ag Show held last weekend show jumping ( I managed to cut a few heads off ) a couple friends kids in the shearing comp Leanne Edited September 29, 2014 by Ozstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstar Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 (edited) some more the youngest (12) and oldest (82) competing in the sheaf toss my son having a go at the shooting gallery these where taking with my phone but I also entered some photos in the show I won best album photo overall (amongst some other firsts etc) and won a rosette and a printing voucher :D Leanne Edited September 29, 2014 by Ozstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheenyx Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Congratulations on the photo wins. A well deserved win :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pjrt Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Well done Jeeze they need to advertise it better though. I live in the next town and had no idea it was on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstar Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 Thank you both. Yes there advertising is bad, only found the schedule for entering 2 days before entries closed but you really didn't miss much, we where only there for less than 2 hours and most of that was spent watch the shearing and show jumping as it only took 30 minutes to check out all the displays etc. Callington show is coming up at the end of next month and that is much better to go to :D Leanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossumCorner Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Congrats on the win, and even more so on having the get up and go to enter. Lovely jumping shots too. I cry for what has happened to the ag shows, Gruflife I know what you are saying re advertising, same everywhere, the same few tireder people organising their shows every year, can't do everything, or afford much. One of our local shows recently: no spectators, just competitors, unbelievable. No cattle or cakes or flowers or vegies shown, no-one to organise it. Just sad. And limited horse classes, no show-jumping. A poultry exhibitor said only 30 entries, used to be hundreds. All people want if they are going as spectators is side-shows, but they're not the spectators needed anyway. And the bigger sideshows that would be a draw for a crowd at least - they want a guarantee of 2000 tickets sold or they won't attend. So it's great that some of the ag shows are hanging on and doing well, but so many of them are finding it difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pjrt Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 You know I was talking to my ex a few years ago about our local regions county ag shows. I live in Mannum and ours is abysmal. Then the town 25km up the road has one, and the town a few minutes up the road from them has one etc etc. They are all pretty piss poor these days. Times have changed. What I thought out loud was that local regions should pool their recources and have it in one town one year,the next town the other year and so on. That way their would be bigger entires and crowds at the one bigger show and the people who organize stuff could all work together on the annual regional show, whatever town it is held in. They need to think outside the box or perish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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