He was judged the winner in Oamaru in conjunction with the Victorian Heritage Festival at the weekend.
Trevor Douglas, Penny Anderson, and Indy Rayboula were highly commended for their entries.
The competition by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga was staged through October for the first time in Waitaki, in partnership with the Waitaki Museum and Archive, to encourage contemporary documentation of the district’s most important heritage places.
Over 55 images made the final cut for judging, and many of them will be used by HNZ to relaunch its NZ Heritage List website.
HNZ has over 5300 listed sites nationally, with about 1700 in Otago — and about 150 of those are in Waitaki.
The district has 38 category one listed buildings.
Manangkil, originally of the Philippines and a resident of Duntroon for the past nine years, said this country’s "amazing landscape" had inspired him to take up photography after arriving in this country 19 years ago.
He was largely self-taught.
The winning Tyne St image took him over 45 minutes to achieve, with over 30 separate shots then stitched together to form the seamless vista.
Judge Martin Horspool said the competition criteria was to highlight historic buildings, for the photos to be landscape oriented, and for the images to sum up the buildings as they are — "because the buildings are the star of the show".
"There was always one outstanding and that came back to me, that was absolutely brilliant on many aspects — that was stunning and technically very difficult to do.
"It’s an absolutely gorgeous thing," he said of the winner.
