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Invitation To Exhibit Photos At Ellerslie Show
MEDIA RELEASE December 2008
New Zealanders invited to exhibit at next year's
Ellerslie International
Flower Show
All New Zealanders
are being invited to exhibit at next year's
Ellerslie
International Flower Show.
The Great
Ellerslie Photo Competition is a chance for everyone
to
capture on film their favourite garden scene - whether
their own garden
or a borrowed landscape - and have their
work displayed at Ellerslie.
"New Zealand is a nation of
garden lovers and many of us are frequently
out at the
weekend snapping away capturing both the environment in
which
we live and that which is at our back door," says
Ellerslie
International Flower Show managing-director
Dave Mee
"The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition is a great
way for the Show to
celebrate gardening, garden design
and the environment through another
creative art
form."
The best entries in The Great Ellerslie Photo
Competition will be
displayed at the five-day show in
North Hagley Park from 11 to 15 March,
being viewed by
thousands of national and international visitors.
Judged
in four categories - Macro Shot, New Zealand Landscape,
Your
Favourite Garden Scene and Child photographers 12
Years and Under - the
competition is a popular feature of
the Show. The competition is open to
amateur
photographers only.
Ellerslie Exhibition Manager Kate
Hillier says she was "absolutely
amazed" at the quality
of last year's entries.
"We have some extremely talented
amateur photographers throughout New
Zealand. The photo
competition highlights our love as a country
for
gardening and our landscape.
"Many of the photos
show home gardens which rate up there with
the
award-winning exhibition gardens at the Show and
provide visitors with
an equal amount of inspiration for
their own property.
"As for the New Zealand landscape, it
is unequalled anywhere else in the
world and this is
reflected in the entries in the New Zealand
Landscape
category."
Ms Hillier says she is excited
about the potential of this year's
competition with a new
city, a new venue and a new show.
Entries for The Great Ellerslie Photo Competition close on 28 February.
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