Lowestoft Journal Photo Competition

A beach at Rarotonga, Cook Islands by Gemma Longman

Picture Studios is often working in partnership with the Lowestoft Journal and they are providing the weekly prize for our photo competition

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THIS holiday-brochure style glimpse of paradise has been chosen as the winner of The Journal’s Picture of the Week competition.

Taken by Gemma Longman, of Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, during her 2006 round-the-world trip, the image is of a beach at Rarotonga, which is the most opulous of the Cook Islands.
She is engaged to Tim Parkinson, whose photo of Mauritius through a glass won our October 19 Picture of the Week award.

The couple share a love of photography and are both avid users of the Flickr photo-sharing website.

“Put simply, I love taking photos. I love the way photography makes me look at everything closely and from a different perspective. A classic scenery shot or a photo of a chair, I don’t care. To me, photography has the power to show how there is beauty in anything,” said Gemma.

Having won, she will be presented with her photograph in a 12in x 10in frame, mounted and inscribed, in a prize worth more than £60 from Picture Studios, of London Road North, Lowestoft.

The photo will also join the other winning pictures in our grand final next year, when readers can vote for their overall favourite. The photographer of the winning image will then be presented with a printed 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.