ENTER THE LUMIX DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Lumix have just launched a brand new competition at www.panasonic-europe.com/lumix/awards/home.asp . There are loads of brilliant prizes on offer.

Lumix are offering you the chance to participate in two competitions, the Lumix Peoples Award and the Lumix Award, and have the chance of winning Lumix digital cameras, palm pdas or exclusive participation for two people in a photographic workshop by a well known photographer or by a well known photographic school!!!

The Lumix Peoples Award

The Lumix Peoples Award competition will take place each month from June to September 2002, any images you enter will be featured on the site and people visiting the digital photography gallery at the site will be able to vote directly for their favourite image. In order to vote you must register on the site.
The competition will award prizes for images taken by a digital camera in two formats, single image and multiple image. Each format has three categories, Expression, Environment and Experience. Single image is just that- submit one image conveying the theme of the category you choose to enter. Multiple image is different -- it gives you the opportunity to submit 6 images to tell a story, illustrate an idea or create something that a single image doesnt allow.

We want to encourage you to have fun and experiment with your photographs so dont be put off if you dont have the best digital camera; so enter in all categories if you want.

A panel of respected photographers will judge the competition, and the winners will receive lumix digital cameras and Palm PDAS as prizes.

The competition is now on

The call for entries will be open for 4 months from the 1st June 2002 to the 30th September 2002. Entries for the monthly Lumix Peoples award will be automatically considered for the Lumix Award.

The Lumix Award

The Lumix Award will be judged by a panel of respected professional photographers who will deliberate on the 6 category winners of the Lumix award peoples award.
The shortlist of a 100 images in each of the 6 categories will be created, from which the winners will be chosen using several judging rounds. Out of the 6 category winners they will choose an overall winner for the prize 'Best in Awards
The judging will take place over 1 month in October 2002.
The winner receives participation in a photographic workshop for 5 to 7 days for 2 people in a EU member state. The workshop will be held either by a well-known photographer or by a well-known photographic school. Airfare accommodations and meals will be arranged and paid for by Panasonic.
Winners will be published at 7pm on the Lumix site. As a winner your work will be published in other media that are yet to be decided but one example could be the Panasonic general catalogue of fall 2002 and for spring 2003

About Lumix

If you would like to know more about the competition and the rules visit www.panasonic-europe.com/lumix/awards/home.asp or if youre interested in digital photography why not visit the Panasonic lumix site at www.lumix.co.uk where you can see their latest range of digital cameras including the lumix lc5, lumix lc20, lumix lc40 or the lumix f7 alternatively visit the Panasonic Europe Portal at www.panasonic-europe.com which is a gateway to Panasonics award winning product microsites. Dedicated to lumix, technics, F1, Tau, eWear, eCam SD Memory Card, DVD Audio, Home Cinema and DVD Navigation, experience interactive features and full product range specs on these cutting edge microsites.

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