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The Border Mail&nbsp;photographers have picked some of their favorite shots from the year. Look back on the year that was 2015 in our online&nbsp;picture gallery.&nbsp;

15 year old diver Emily Pettingil is going to Adelaide to compete in a national comp. Here pictured at training at Lavington pool. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

With 16 years’ experience in midwifery, Barb Roberts has been operating Albury-Wodonga Midwifery Services from her West Wodonga home offering woman one on one midwifery care throughout their pregnancy until their baby is 6 weeks of age. Here pictured with 18 babies she delivered since she started her private business. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

3 year old Grace Leiscke of Walbundrie who is the niece of Brett Leischke who is cutting and loading hay for the run. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Albury Healthfocus Directors Louise Humphrey and Mandy Hobbs will sleep on the street tonight to raise money for Carevan. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

14 year old Mack Oswald from Baranduda wants to thank emergency services for their hard work after he was rescued by emergency services at the weekend. Here pictured with Jacob Moffat ,14, who was with him at the time he got trapped in the cave. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Mother of three Kinta Gitsham of Gerogery talked to The Border Mail about suffering from postnatal depression since she had had her first child.  Pictured with husband Rick, children Archie, 7, Josie, 5, and George, 2. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Bushfires in Indigo Valley heading towards Wooragee and Leneva. Pictured: Concerned residents watching the fires from the top of Indigo Valley. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Tennis pro Garth Quast getting ready for Thurgoona Open Day. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Peter Sutherland from Thologolong in Victoria owns 39 year old Shah who was once ridden by Australia's first female jockey June Lossius who now is 84 years old. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Annual Gerogery Field Day at the Moll Family farm “Elderslie”. Pictured: Property owner Daniel Moll. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Corowa Mayor Fred Longmire talking to The Border Mail about country footy clubs struggling despite the AFL never being richer. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Eric Holland of Thurgoona, owner of the viral Goanna picture talking to Border Mail about his experience with his picture going viral on the internet. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Albury Official opening of MAMA (Murray Art Museum Albury). Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Burrumbuttock Flower Show will feature open gardens for the first time. Pictured: Katherine Gates in Karen Bedrook's beautiful rose garden. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Official opening of the new Welcome Centre and associated works at Bonegilla Migrant Experience by Senator Bridget McKenzie and Wodonga Mayor Cr Anna Speedie. Pictured: Roman and Teresa Skrypko of Ballarat who arrived to Bonegilla in 1949. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Physiotherapist Liam James from Flex Out Physiotherapy working with tradies for Tradies National Health month. Here pictured with tradie Robert Tuksar on a worksite in Glenroy. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Winemaker Chris Pfeiffer from Pfeiffer Wines at Wahgunyahr is a finalist for a women in wine award, champion of change award. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Albury Baby to Toddler Cover photo. Pictured: 20 month old Dustin Bowie of Boorhaman. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

MAMA in Albury pouring one tonne of Lego onto a big table. Visitors can come and build their own art! launch of new, user generated exhibition. Pictured: Natalie Hine of Albury with 8 year old son Jonny Hine. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

2015 OAKS DAY - "Girls Day Out" at Albury Race Club. Pictured: Brodie HollandPicture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

71 year old Yackandandah Baker Mr. Tom Laing owner/operator of Yackandandah bakery celebrates 56 years of baking of which 34 years has been spent baking at the Yackandandah bakery and at 71 years old is still fronting up at 1am 5 days a week. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Bill and Lois Hotson from Hotson's Cherries at Chiltern looking forward to the upcoming cherry. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

The students at St Patrick's Primary School in Albury are putting together a "Blast to the Past" back to the future-themed play. Pictured L-R Paddy Davis ,13, and Kye Groves ,12. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Wodonga Raiders players Steve Jolliffe, Todd Grayson, Ross Tungatalum and Jack Di Mizio have re-signed for next season. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

2015 OAKS DAY - "Girls Day Out" at Albury Race Club. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

High tea luncheon prepared by Geoffrey Michael Pattisier and TAFE students at The Valleys Restaurant on Wodonga Tafe Campus . Pictured: L-R Patissirere Geoffrey Michael and student Jerome Vibas. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Lifeline general manager Chris Pidd has bins set up at Albury Council to gather donations which can be recycled and raise money for Lifeline. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

The Nappy Collective campaign is a campaign where the community donates leftover unused nappies and redestribute them to organistaions that support families in crisis or in need. Pictured: 8 month old Violet Ward. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Tuesday ladies pennant at Albury Grasscourts. Pictured: Lynda Davis. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Jasneet Kaur and her one year old daughter Agamjot Kaur pictured after receiving their Australian citizenships at Wodonga Council's citizenship ceremony at The Cube. Here pictured with husband Gurdial Singh who is still waiting to receive his citizenship. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Sam Juparulla (Wickman) pictured with artwork from Central Australia, which is part of the Central Desert Art Sales gallery's second exhibition. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Newly re-signed co-coach Trent Castles says Yackandandah are capable of going all the way in 2016, after a strong second half of the season this year. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Albury United soccer goalkeeper Marty Chambers played his 300th game this year. Here pictured at Jelbart Park, Lavington. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Tom Bainbridge and Olly Morris from Star FM getting ready for National Op Shop Week at Vinnies on Urana Road, Lavington. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Border country music promoter, radio host, all round legend and ex-Yackandandah son Keith Melbourne turned 90. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Patrick Lawson from Corowa has started a Facebook page called "3 Words I Need Help" as a place for people with mental illness to go and find support. He started it nine days ago and already has 1400 followers. Here pictured with 5 year old daughter Charlotte. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Carly McDougall of Wodonga has a greyhound up for adoption named Skye. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Sculptor Benjamin Gilbert and his wife Tijana had solar panels installed at their property at Yackandandah. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Bandits player Cory Dixon. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Div 1 Men Cup Final at Jelbart Park, lavington Wangaratta City FC v Myrtleford Savoy SC. Wangaratta City ended up winning after penalty shoot out. Picture: ELENOR TEDENBORG

Professor Margaret Barrett speaking about the importance of music in childhood development.Visiting Musikids Wodonga as part of research. Picture: MARK JESSER

Holbrook Settlers Motel owner Glenn Liddell with 3 miniature pigs. Picture: MARK JESSER

Paul Whitehead of North Albury with his dog Jumbo at Albury's Noreuil Park. Picture: MARK JESSER

Lacey Smith of Albury wears 'Allure Bridal' from Ferrari Formalwear and Bridal, Albury.Taken Dean Street Bridge. Picture: MARK JESSER

Wodonga Library, Harry Potter activities - Charlotte Le (As Cho Chang) 10 of Tarrawingee, Ulrika Wild (As Mcgonagall) 11 of Beechworth and Sage Davidson (As Hermione) 9 of Beechworth. Picture: MARK JESSER

Indigo Creek Road, trees on fire. Falling trees. Picture: MARK JESSER

ICE APP, Billie Taylor 15, Year 9 from Wangaratta. Picture: MARK JESSER

Benalla v Kyabram in the GVFNL Grand Final -Benalla's Will Martiniello celebrates with his team mates at the final siren. Picture: MARK JESSER

Scott Bishop as 'Boba fett' for the opening of Star Wars. Picture: MARK JESSER

Peter Smithwick exhibition at The Albury Club. Picture: MARK JESSER

Indigo Valley, Victoria. Bushfire. Monday (day after) Pictured: Kevin and Jenny Nightingale at their property. The shed, vehicles and motorbikes destroyed by fire. Kevin in his shed. He and son were restoring this vehicle. Picture: MARK JESSER

Lake Hume Village, NSW.  Pictured on the Murray River. Dave Anderson (Yellow) of Lavington NSW and Len Mitsch of Albury NSW. Picture: MARK JESSER

Spirit of Anzac Exhibition in Wodonga. Picture: MARK JESSER

Wodonga Raiders footballer Sam Murray 17 inside their club rooms. Picture: MARK JESSER

Albury Bandits Basketballer Cory Dixon. Picture: MARK JESSER

Bridge Road Brewers owner Ben Kraus with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Taste 'The Redemption'. Picture: MARK JESSER

Dancer Beth Docker, 17, is back on the Border before she moves to France for her career. Picture: MARK JESSER

O&M Yarrawonga v Wodonga Raiders, Brendan Fevola celebrates. Picture: MARK JESSER

Indigo Valley, Victoria. Bushfire. Monday (day after) Pictured: Shane and Gianna Hogarth with there almost completed home. Picture: MARK JESSER

MICA Paramedic Ian Russell of the Wodonga Single Responder Unit (Wodonga SRU) wrote a story about the diversity of jobs. Picture: MARK JESSER

Angus Lawford, 19, had to barricade himself in a rear room of his unit this morning when people broke into the front room and started to smash the place up.Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Snow blanketed Stanley this morning as cold weather set in across the border. Dan Saunders and his son Otis, 2, and Warren Ferres with his son Arlo, 4, talk a walk in the white stuff. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Charlie Wortmann tosses up the coins during a game of Two-Up at the Commercial Club this afternoon. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Ann Blainey was in Wodonga today throwing her support behind the idea of naming the new square in Junction Place "Melba Square". She is an authority on Nellie Melba, after writing a book on the opera singer's life. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Audrey Bowman has won the Kiarina Apprentice of the Year 2015 award for hairdressing. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Orchards lie covered in snow this morning after a cold spell brought snow to Stanley last night. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Brett McLennan, Zoe Corbett and Josh Fluss are three high profile players joining the ranks of the referees. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

ANZAC Day service at Bethanga Soldiers Memorial Hall. Members of the catafalque party in position around the memorial. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Troy Cassar-Daley was in Albury today to promote his upcoming record. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

There was a fatal single vehicle accident on the Wodonga Yackandandah Road. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Residents are angry that aerial spraying of herbicides on the Radiata Pine Plantations sites around Bright is being carried out without community awareness. Pic of Wylde Wisley, 4, and Eliza Walker, 2. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

A car has been left burnt out on the underpass of the Hume Highway and rail tracks in McKoy St, just east of the La Trobe University entrance.Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Members of the Rutherglen Womens Cricket Club include Bianca Mulqueen, 16, Emmaline Howard, 19, Bridie Nixon, 15, and Kaitlyn Ritchie, 18. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Winton Wetlands ranger Dylan McWinney at the site of an earlier planting on the foreshore of Winton Wetlands just near the Yacht Club. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Wooragee, Bernie Rosser, aka Mr Mushroom, is growing these Oyster Mushrooms.Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Morgan Country Car Club Swap Meet 2015. Les Clay of Howlong was selling a wide range of stuff at the market. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Ronald McDonald has been searching for answers about the death of his Auntie's fiance, George Sayner, who was killed in action in France on June 10th, 1917, and who's body was never found. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Albury Gold Cup 2015. The field on the Gold Cup run the straight towards the finish line. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

Gindaymanha Sports Carnival. Coach Terry Morris and some of the players in his Glenroy team. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

BTK Collective performing on the top level of Volt Lane car park tonight. Zac Johnson does some fire breathing. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL

 Car fire in Gardner Street, Wodonga. Picture: BLAIR THOMSON

Richard Manion, Farm Manager,  with view of Lake Hume behind him. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Corryong Demons v. Border Walwa. Border-Walwa have broken their three year losing streak with this game of football against Corryong. On the left hugging is Dirk Bosman and Andrew Julian.Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

James Cannata, 6, from Myrtleford, mets T-Rex. Jurassic World movie. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Cyclists in the Lake Hume Challenge crossing the wall. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

 Ted Davis from Culcairn and his mate Leo McNuff from Culcairn share some stories on ANZAC Day. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

 Tom Phibbs, Bull Rider, with Kelvin Duke, President of The Chiltern Pro Rodeo Club. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Albury Art Gallery is launching its new name "MAMA". Holding up the name is Jacqui Hemsley, MAMA Director, Maree Cables, Chair, Arts Albury, Mayor Kevin Mack, and Dr. Guinever Threlkeld, MAMA Advisory Committee Chair. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Simon Wright from Magpies Hockey Club and Ethan Albon from Wodonga Hockey Club will be playing against each other. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Max Shepherd, Director, Albury Wodonga Cricket Academy with some of the 80 players taking part in the Winter Cricket Academy. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Barnawartha Post Office and Newsagency has won the May 2015 Australia Post Licensee Retail Award for the North East. Licensees Katrina Smith and husband Glenn Smith. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Promo for Albury Gold Cup. Stephanie Watson, 22, from Albury. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Craig Hancock from Corowa playing the part of Daniel Cameron on the horse with the Golden Horseshoes leads the parade in Beechworth. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

The Man from Snowy River Challenge. Buckjump section. Chris Sherwood from Towrang, NSW, comes off. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Cooking Class with Manu Feildel.  Wodonga Firefighters David Brown, with Manu Feidel, Mathew Johnson and Alan Foster. Picture: KYLIE ESLER 

Albury's Keenan Sirmones, 17, heads face first at the newly opened Flip Out trampoline centre. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON

 Wodonga Mayor Rodney Wangman and Labor Party Upper House MP Jaclyn Symes playing table tennis. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON

Yarrunga Pool's last day before closing for good. James Adams who has been a lifeguard at the pool since September 2013 scoops some leaves. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON

Upper Murray character Rex Beaver who was a shearer among many other talents over his life. Pictured in the shearing shed where he first started, about 12 kilometers from Jingellic. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON

 A car crashed into the front of Paleo Cafe on Dean Street.   An 80 year woman driver had a medical condition and lost control of her car. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON

<i>The Border Mail</i>&nbsp;photographers have picked some of their favorite shots from the year. Look back on the year that was 2015 in our online&nbsp;picture gallery.&nbsp;

GALLERY: Best Pictures of 2015

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