ARE you a happy snapper, do your mates comment that you should enter your photos in competitions? Maybe you're a unit photographer or you were in the right place at the right time and got the money shot. Do you look at Defence photography and think 'I can do that.'

Well here is your chance to show the ADF what you are capable of with a camera.

Army, Navy and Airforce newspapers are looking for this years' best Amateur Defence Photographer in the second ADF Amateur Photography Competition.

There are prizes including Nikon cameras for first, second and third placings with a special prize for the Harry Burton Memorial Award.

The winner will also receive the ADF Amateur Photographer Trophy currently held by Pte Ray Khoo, TSP RMC, whose picture beat 600 other entries.

The rules are simple: it's open to all members of the ADF, excluding members whose trade rating or ECN is as a photographer.

Photographs must depict an aspect of service life in the ADF and must be suitable for a 'community newspaper.'

How to enter.
All entries must have been taken after Nov 2002.

Entries may be colour or black and white. You can only enter a maximum of six images.

All images must be must submitted by e-mail to armynews@defencenews.gov.au or sent on a standard CD-Rom to the Photo Competition Coordinator, Army newspaper, R8-LG-029 Russell Offices, Canberra ACT 2600.

All images are to be 350 Kb JPEG at 300 dpi.

No hard copy images will be accepted and will be returned to the sender.

All images must be accompanied by a word document containing your rank, full name, unit, point of contact telephone number, e-mail address and no more than 50 words describing who, what, why, when and where the photo was taken.

The competition closes at 5pm on Monday, November 3, 2003.