Penny
7 January 2020
El Patio Photography Competition 2020
Calling out to all Instagram fanatics, travel photography whizz-kids and landscape framing afficionados - here's your chance to get more than just 'likes' on Instagram for your efforts! Enter into our photography competition and we will display your beautiful piece for an entire month in both of our centres AND you could win a whole 15 hour course! To make it both more fun and fair - the winner will be selected by popular vote: a people's choice award! Read how to enter here! (It's super easy)
This year the theme will be: "The moment I knew Spanish was for me"
Trinidad, Cuba in the 'Golden Hour' (Penny Ray)
Camino de Santiago on the way to Fisterra, Galicia (Craig Burgess)
How do I participate?
Send us a travel photo or any photo with a Hispanic theme or subject by March 29
- One photo per student
- Good quality image: 250–300dpi
- Reasonable size as we'll be enlarging and printing the photos for display: ideally 20 × 30 cm (at least 15 x 20cm)
- jpeg format is best
Include a creative title and a brief description of your photo in Spanish! (no more than 100 words) Make sure your description matches in with our theme: "The moment I knew Spanish was for me".
Entries will be exhibited at both centres and the competition will be judged by popular ballot vote (a people's choice award). The winner of the competition will receive A FREE 15-HOUR COURSE. The two runners up will receive a MYSTERY PRIZE (A Spanish learning resource - appropriate to level).
The opening festivies and voting will be held every day during the last week of Term 1 (the week of April 6) with voting ending April 17. Don't worry if you can't make the party – the photos will be on display for the whole of Autumn. The winner will be announced on May 4.
Looking forward to seeing your entries!
Send us your entries here!
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