Get snap happy and be in with a chance to exhibit at Ellerslie
Capture a stunning image this festive season and be in with the chance to exhibit your photograph at next year’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.
Anyone with an interest in photography is invited to enter The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition, which is open until Friday 11 February 2011.
The subject categories for the competition are broad and flexible to encourage imagination and inventiveness. They include an open category, with a ‘focus on flowers’ theme, a New Zealand landscape category and a people and flowers category.
About 100 of the best photographs will be chosen to be part of an exhibition which will run for the duration of the Show from 9-13 March 2011.
Carolyn Green of The Fusion Trust, which is running the competition, says photographers are encouraged to think “outside the square” with their entries for the exhibition.
“We want people to use their imagination and to use flowers as a theme. We encourage them to think about capturing insects on flowers, flowers worn in someone’s hair or flowers being used at events, such as weddings or funerals. It’s all about looking at how flowers are represented and thinking about how people interact with them.”
Entries will be judged in two categories – under 18 years and open. There are some great prizes, including a $500 digital camera from Photo and Video International.
Carolyn Green says there were some amazing entries in the 2010 competition and the winner Wendy-Lee Renner, who won with her Magnolia Mist photograph, had never entered the competition before.
“People get a real buzz out of getting their photos displayed. Ellerslie is such a huge event for Christchurch and every year The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition is very popular among the public.”
Show Managing Director Dave Mee says The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition is just another way Ellerslie celebrates gardening.
“This is a great opportunity for budding as well as professional photographers to capture images which highlight one of our country’s favourite past times – gardening,” he says.
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