ipsum34 said:http://www.commonwealthphotos.org/about.aspx
British High Commission, Singapore, has launched the Singapore Youth Commonwealth Photo Competition to find the best images taken with a digital camera or mobile phone(MMS).
The photos should express and interpret the Commonwealth themes of Health & Vitality - The Commonwealth Challenge with special emphasis on youth, sport, environment, science & innovation. The competition is open to anyone aged 15 - 30.
The photos will be judged by well-known photographer, Russel Wong; Deputy Editor of The Straits Times, Felix Soh; and Minister of National Development, Mr Mah Bow Tan. The deadline for entries is midnight on 26 February 2006. The winners will be announced on 13 March 2006, Commonwealth Day and will be notified by email and/or phone beforehand.
Winning entries will be exhibited at the Singapore National Library, and will also be displayed at the Royal Commonwealth Society Headquaters in London. Please retain the original image file to enable good quality printing.
:: Digital Photo Category Prizes
FIRST PRIZE • 1 pair of air tickets to London, courtesy of British Airways, PLUS 4 nights accommodation for two (twin sharing) and 2 complimentary British Heritage passes to London's most famous attractions, courtesy of VisitBritain.
• 1 Canon 8 Mega Pixel 18-55cm lens SLR - EOS 350D
(Best selling SLR in Singapore), courtesy of Courts
SECOND PRIZE • O2 XDA Atom, courtesy of O2
THIRD PRIZE • 1 Casio 5 mega Pixel Digital Still Camera: (3x Optical & 4x digital zoom), courtesy of Courts
:: MMS Photo Category Prizes
FIRST PRIZE • 1 pair of air tickets to London, courtesy of British Airways, PLUS 4 nights accommodation for two (twin sharing) and 2 complimentary British Heritage passes to London's most famous attractions, courtesy of VisitBritain.
• 1 Sony Ericsson W900i, courtesy of M1
SECOND PRIZE • O2 XDA Atom, courtesy of O2
THIRD PRIZE • Nokia N90, courtesy of M1
from http://forums.clubsnap.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1874118
As you can see from the above post, this competition started off with 2 categories, digital camera photographs and handphone photographs. This competition was kicked off with 2 sportspeople taking MMS photos of themselves at a carnival with the event organizers encouraging everyone there to submit their very own HANDPHONE shots in hopes of winning a prize in the MMS category, or digital camera shots.
So everyone there, including me, started sending our own hp shots to them.
Then days before the closing date they combined the prizes on the website only, while their galleries still posted up-to-date photos of the latest submissions of camera and hp shots, leading many to think they still accepted MMS and Camera shots as two separate categories.
Then come today, on their website 'Winners' tab it is shown that there will be 2 First prizes, 2 Second prizes etc and none whatsoever mention or explanation of the removal of the previous categories.
In my humble opinion this is really unfair to entrants who had submitted for the MMS section as NONE of the Winners is submitted by handphone shots. If there is a mixture, it is still acceptable, but none?
And yes, pardon my bitching, as I am really upset over the hushhush manner they removed the categories without informing in the newspapers at all unlike what they had done when the competiton was started (pg3 on straits times).
should I write in to the straits times forum especially since The Straits Times is a media partner?