16/09/2026
A Cayman Style Photography Challenge began with one tree and one simple ask: show us how you see the Royal Poinciana. In just two weeks, more than 100 submissions arrived, with 91 photographs making it into the final voting gallery.
The submissions showed how differently people can interpret a single subject. Some approached it with a photographer’s eye; others simply noticed a poinciana on a familiar road and reached for their phone.
Bruce Gordon presents the winners with their awards and gifts donated by the Visual Arts Society. Source: CompassTV
Viewed side by side, the photographs show the breadth of interpretation that emerged from a single prompt.
Viewed side by side, the photographs show the breadth of interpretation that emerged from a single prompt.
The Cayman Style’s pick goes to Bryony Dixon (@kreasunset) for The Season of Falling Fire, a collaborative piece created with Emily DeCou.
Bryony shared that Emily reached out with the idea of creating something special for the challenge, shaped by their shared admiration for nature. The two joined forces to build a scene that felt distinctly Caymanian, using styling, props and setting to tell a story rather than simply document the tree itself.
Bryony’s editing style carries that idea further, giving the final image a softened, almost archival quality that feels more like a remembered Cayman summer than a contemporary photograph.
The Cayman Style Choice was selected in consultation with a panel of photographers, with submissions considered against the challenge guidelines, including creativity, composition and storytelling. The Season of Falling Fire stood out for the way those elements came together in a cohesive and distinctly visual story.
There is a consistency to the way Signy documents Cayman outside of the challenge as well. Her personal YouTube channel captures deliberately quiet pieces of everyday life, from picking ackee from a tree to chickens near Seven Mile Beach, with minimal editing and an interest in preserving a slower view of Cayman beyond what is typically shown to visitors.
Beauty Behind the Veil extends that same instinct: look closer, stay with the image a little longer, and there is usually more there than first appears.
Soon come! The next part of Project Flamboyant.
For the digital exhibit, we invited a group of local creatives to take the Poinciana somewhere new. Working across different disciplines, each person had only two weeks to answer the same prompt, and to document how they got there.
Stay tuned.
Soon come! The next part of Project Flamboyant.
For the digital exhibit, we invited a group of local creatives to take the Poinciana somewhere new. Working across different disciplines, each person had only two weeks to answer the same prompt, and to document how they got there.
Stay tuned.
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