More persons are being encouraged to appreciate and capture Guyana’s beauty through the Guyana Tourism Authority’s (GTA) amateur ‘See it, snap it’ photo competition.
According to a release from GTA, the contest was part of Tourism Awareness Month activities in November 2012, and attracted participation from across the country. A panel of judges selected the three winning entries from a total of 70 photographs in three categories: attractions, scenery and culture. Entry into to the competition was free and was open to all amateur photographers over 21 years.
Duane De Freitas won the first prize – a Nikon 16 megapixel camera. Amanda Richards won both the second and third prizes – a colour printer, a tripod and a photography book. They were presented with their prizes last week in a simple ceremony at the GTA office in Sophia.
The release said De Freitas’s photo, in the category of ‘People’, depicted riding the rapids in a canoe, just below Corona Falls.
Richards’s photos were in ‘Scenery’, which depicted the old koker at Mon Repos and ‘Attractions’, which captured