Best Photography Award

In conjunction with the auspicious event, The Brunei Times is also organising a photographic competition for all Bruneians and those residing or visiting Brunei Darussalam — including the invited photojournalists — based on the four themes. Each photographer can submit up to six (6) digital images on each theme.

Three top prizes will be awarded for EACH theme:

  • 1st Prize US$1500
  • 2nd Prize US$1000
  • 3rd Prize US$500.

The Best Photography Award will go to the overall best entry to be chosen from the four 1st Prize winners. In addition, there will be a Special Award for the best entry submitted by students of secondary schools and tertiary institutions.

This competition is supported by the Brunei Photographic Society and the Brunei Darussalam Association of Photographers.

Selected images from the competition will be featured in a commemorative book for this auspicious event. The book will be presented as a gift to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam. The book will be rich in visual images and will convey the bond between His Majesty and his loyal subjects.

Sign Up

In order to participate in this competition, submit the photos in digital images together with the entry form before 25 July 2008 31 July 2008 to:

committee2008[at]bruneitimes.com.bn
You may split your photos into multiple email attachments if the file size of the photos is too huge to fit into a single email attachment.

OR

Burn the photos to a CD and deliver it to our office at:

Photographic Competition
Brunei Times Sdn. Bhd.
3rd Floor, Wisma Haji Mohd. Taha, Jalan Gadong,
Bandar Seri Begawan BE4119,
Brunei Darussalam.

Attn: Albert Chin

By submitting photos and entry form, you are agreeing to the Rules and Regulations.

Renaming Filenames

Before submitting the digital images, please ensure that they are named accordingly based on the filename pattern provided below:

THEME_FIRSTNAME-LASTNAME_#.jpg

The codes for THEME are:

  • CE for Celebrations
  • PE for People
  • CH for Cultural Heritage
  • EN for Environment

For example, John Tan submits three digital images for Celebrations theme and another two for Environment, the filenames for each of the images should be named as followed:

CE_John-Tan_1.jpg
CE_John-Tan_2.jpg
CE_John-Tan_3.jpg
EN_John-Tan_1.jpg
EN_John-Tan_2.jpg