Panasonic Amateur Photo of the Year Contest

It's Panasonic Amateur Photo of the Year contest time!  Get your digital cameras ready.

Are you passionate about photography? Taking pictures of family, friends and places you've been? Maybe you've captured a magic moment, an unusual situation or some humorous, crazy slice of life? Whatever it is, if you have a photo you're really proud of, you should enter the Panasonic Amateur Photo of the Year contest.

First prize - A trip for two to New York
‘Sheer discovery’ is the central theme of the New York trip. The winner gets to stay at the magnificent, renowned Waldorf Astoria hotel.

To experience NY from different sides, Panasonic Batteries will offer the winner a city tour through the famous New York districts such as Chinatown, Rockefeller Center, Battery Park… but also a Big Apple Helicopter Sightseeing Tour. A night out to a Broadway show will add to the excitement.

The icing on the cake is a top-notch professional photo workshop with Mr. Luis Castañeda, in which the winner will participate. Luis Castañeda won in 1994 the award for being the best Latin American photographer.

Second prize
The runner-up will receive a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 8-Megapixel digital camera with the renowned Leica
lens, 12X optical & 4X digital zoom and Optimal Image Stabilizer for pin-sharp pictures every time.

Third Prize
The third prize consists of a powerful pocket-sized Lumix DMC-LZ3 5-Megapixel digital camera, with 6X optical and 4X digital zoom and Optical Image Stabilizer.

You can enter your photos until October 31st 2006.

For more details, please visit http://www.photo-award.com/

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