The Hawke's Bay Today Canon Harvey Norman Summer Photo Competition was a dream-come-true for 12-year-old winner Molly Simon, with a little help from her friends.
After receiving here $1400 prize package from Harvey Norman floor manager Lucain MacDonald, including an "amazing" Canon 200D camera and an 18mm-55mm Canon lens, she revealed her friends helped her get the money shot, and decided which one she should enter into the competition.
Their collective eye for a good one was spot on, for, as it happened, judges and Hawke's Bay Today photographers Warren Buckland and Paul Taylor, unaware of each other's choice, also selected the image as the one to take the top price.