Lowestoft Journal Photo Competition
19/10/07
Mauritius through a glass, by Tim Parkinson
is the winner of the Picture of the Week contest.
TIM Parkinson’s artistic view of paradise has been named The Journal’s Picture of the Week.
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Picture Studios is often working in partnership with the
Lowestoft Journal and they are providing the weekly prize
for our photo competition
Picture Studios
179 London Road North
Lowestoft
NR32 1HG
www.picturestudios.net
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Beating competition from 76 other entries, Mauritius through a glass, was taken when he was on the Indian Ocean island as a guest at the wedding of Lowestoft couple Nicola and Karl Eglington.
Together with his fiancé Gemma, who was bridesmaid, and Nicola’s parents Jenny and David Cady, Tim, of Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, was part of the wedding party in November 2005.
Working as an IT systems manager at Cefas, Tim is a keen amateur photographer and in his spare time is an avid Flickr user, posting over 4,000 images online.
Having been named Picture of the Week, he is set to receive a 12in x10in framed, mounted and inscribed print, worth over £60, from Picture Studios, of London Road North, Lowestoft, and will now go on to our overall final.
Together with the other winning photographs over the next six months, his photo will be re-printed in The Journal with readers offered the opportunity to vote for their overall favourite. The photographer of the winning image will then be presented with a printed a 12in x 18in photo block worth £130.
How to enter
If you think you can do better than this week’s winner, and would like to opportunity to win the great weekly prize from Picture Studios, we are now accepting entries for next week’s competition.
We’d prefer the pictures to be digital and between 500KB and 3MB in size, however we will also accept good old-fashioned prints.
To enter send your name, address and picture to
Journal editor Russell Cook at russell.cook@archant.co.uk and mark your e-mail “Journal photo competition.”
Prints can be sent to:
Russell Cook, Editor, The Journal, 147 London Road North, Lowestoft, NR32 1NB.
Slideshow of entries for 19th October 2007
Previous photo competitions
12th October entries
5th October entries
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