Canon South Africa has announced that its forthcoming Canon Expo will be preceded by a creative photography competition, with more than R150 000 in prizes up for grabs. According to the company, this will be one of the biggest creative photographic competitions it has held to date. Entrants can submit their photographic interpretation of one or more of the five themes by the 13^th of November 2011.

The themes are: Candlelight; Circles; Through a Child’s Eye; It’s in the Detail; and Toy Stories. Selected entries will be exhibited online on Canon SA’s Expo website as well as on the expo’s Facebook site. The top top entries in each category will then be exhibited in the gallery at the Canon Expo taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from Friday the 9^th of December 2011 until Sunday the 11^th.

Although Canon is inviting a ‘no holds barred’ approach on how photographers interpret the themes, the company is explicit that photographic submissions must be produced using Canon equipment only. Entrants can also only submit one entry per category, but there is no limit on the number of categories a person may enter. Entries must be submitted in electronic JPEG format, not exceeding 5 MB, via email. There are five email addresses correlating to the five themes, and each entry must be submitted to the appropriate email address according to the category being entered. These are: candlelight@csexpo.co.za; circles@csaexpo.co.za; childseye@csaexpo.co.za; Itsinthedetail@csaexpo.co.za, and toystories@csaexpo.co.za.