Opposition to the annual Huntfest in Narooma has failed to stop it expanding into an arms fair, with ammunition and gun sales potentially putting the event in breach of the law, according to the Greens.

It is rifles and cameras at fifty paces in the small coastal town, as a photography exhibition celebrating living animals in the wild, judged by Rex Dupain​, is held in protest against Huntfest.

Animals in the Wild 2015 photo competition Category C winner. Powerful Owl by pawprintzau. Credit:Animals in the Wild

Last year, the Greens' photography competition was run head to head with a photography exhibition at Huntfest that celebrated shooting and carcasses.

But Narooma farmer Peter Cormick, a member of Stop Arms Fairs in Eurobodalla (SAFE), says things recently took an "ugly" turn.