27/08/2026
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.
Second place went to Jenno Lantaya for Red Royalty. Across his submissions, Jenno received 109 votes in total.
Originally from the Philippines, Jenno has lived in Cayman for the past three years and has a professional background in optometry. Photography sits on the other side of his life. He considers himself a beginner. When he encountered the challenge, his reasoning was simple. “I thought, there’s no harm in trying.”
Jenno experimented with different perspectives, from portraits to more abstract treatments of colour. His background in optometry also gives the phrase “an eye for photography” unusually literal relevance.
Photography has also become a way of paying closer attention to the island and sharing what he sees with family in the Philippines. Jenno’s participation offers another perspective on community. Cayman is not where he was born, but it is currently where he lives and creates.
Third place went to Lana Gilyun for “After rain….” Across her submissions, Lana received 88 votes.
Her entries, After rain…, The wings are spread… and Ready to fly…, all take a much closer look at the Poinciana.
Where many submissions pulled back to capture the tree in full bloom, Lana moved in closer. After rain… fills the frame with a single flower, with raindrops resting across its scarlet, orange and cream petals against a deep black background.
What makes the photograph even more remarkable is its age. It was captured in South Sound on August 10, 2006, just over two decades ago. Despite how far camera technology has advanced, its clarity, colour and attention to detail still hold their own, proving that technical progress is no substitute for the eye behind the camera.
Congratulations to Signy Watler, Jenno Lantaya and Lana Gilyun, and to everyone who put their interpretation of the Poinciana forward. The final three reflect much of what made the wider collection interesting: different levels of experience, different relationships with Cayman, and different ways of approaching exactly the same subject.
As the People’s Choice winner, Signy receives the Winner’s Bundle including a framed print of her original piece, a workshop session with ZEAL Creative Studio and a $100 cash prize. A beautiful hand-made decorative ceramic piece inspired by the Royal Poinciana, has also been generously donated by Tatiane Tibbetts of the Visual Arts Society.
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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