Eyeballnz Seeks Photos for Website
Media release
13 November 2009
New Zealand’s
ultimate travel planner eyeballnz.com wants your help in
showcasing New Zealand to the world.
Whether
photography is your profession or your passion, send in your
digital pics that best capture your home town or favourite
spot and be in to win a Panasonic Lumix camera package worth
$800. The winner will also have their photo featured on the
eyeballnz website and get an enlarged archival quality print
for themselves.
“Our website photos celebrate
heartland New Zealand,” website co-founder Steve Bicknell
says, “People can see these aren’t the standard stock
shots. Many of our most interesting photos are off the
tourist track. Now we want the whole of New Zealand to get
involved. So we’re calling for people to send their
favourite pics to us so we can share their images with the
world.”
Launched eight weeks ago, eyeballnz.com has
already had 12,000 visits to the site. The website is
allowing browsers to explore New Zealand in a whole new way.
They can plan a journey, build an itinerary and find travel
and accommodation information.
The website is a
result of fifteen months on the road, 95 hours aboard a
Polish Wilga 35a plane and 16,000 photos.
For two
years, co-creators Penny and Steve Bicknell flew, motorhomed
and photographed the length of New Zealand, capturing the
best of Aotearoa with their two dogs, a professional digital
camera and a hefty dose of determination.
Eyeballnz is
a profile of their extraordinary journey and now they want
to profile yours, and are offering a fantastic camera
package in return.
The online competition is free to
enter and open to New Zealand and overseas entrants. Just
fill out the entry form onsite and upload your image(s) by
31 January 2010.
Second and third prize winners will
receive an enlarged archival quality print of their entries
which will feature on the site along with the winning
entry.
Go to http://http://www.eyeballnz.com to enter and
win.
ENDS