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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