Well as Mike men­tioned I’ve signed up for Canon’s lat­est photo com­pe­ti­tion. I’m hop­ing the upload, photo track­ing and vot­ing sys­tem are bet­ter than last year’s com­pe­ti­tion. IT was so ter­ri­ble I gave up after upload­ing just one photo. I do think they’ve done the right thing by restrict­ing this com­pe­ti­tion to 2500 peo­ple. At least the vot­ing should be rel­a­tively even.

Though I signed up mid last week, my box only just arrived today. I’ve only been at this new job for 3 weeks, so the box had been sit­ting on some lady’s desk while she tried to fig­ure out who I was. Les­son learned, next time I need a pack­age deliv­ered I’ll add every detail I can to the address field. Geo­graph­i­cal coor­di­nates, alti­tude, dis­tance to the sun, you name it.

For some­thing that was made entirely from card­board, the box was nearly impos­si­ble to open. The lit­tle com­part­ments con­tain­ing the “props” were harder still. But, with a lit­tle per­sis­tence I got there in the end. Once inside the boxes I dis­cov­ered I’ve been given a red bal­loon, piece of blue chalk, strip of yel­low dots and a sheet of blue cel­lo­phane. If I had a pair of blunt scis­sors and a bot­tle of clag it’d be grade four all over again.

So I’ve got until mid-November to take five pho­tos, fea­tur­ing one item in each. Which is good because even though I’ve had almost a week to think up ideas I’m still draw­ing a blank.

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