Thank you Martin - they are better copies displayed in your link than in the newspaper article.

The exhibits are all of a high quality as you would expect. I feel some are particularly Australian in nature and perhaps I do not share or understand the emotions the photographers are trying to show.

I have not revised my opinion, that the right image won. 

I would also give a highly commended to: Assorted Toppings, which I like very much. I particularly liked the way the toppings had an Islamic style to their imagery, in the context of being an ice cream cone something universally recognised throughout the world.  It was this that I first picked up on when I saw the image.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html