Two win camera, printer in GTA photo competition

In photo from left are Melanie McTurk representing Duane Defreitas, Indranauth Haralsingh and Amanda Richards.

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.

In photo from left are Melanie McTurk representing Duane Defreitas, Indranauth Haralsingh and Amanda Richards.
In photo from left are Melanie McTurk representing Duane Defreitas, Indranauth Haralsingh and Amanda Richards.

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