Thanks to modern technology everyone can be a photographer these days. We are asking you to prove it.

The Romsey Advertiser has teamed up with Viewfinders of Romsey Camera Club to run a photographic competition.

There are not only great prizes on offer but the chance to see your pictures feature in the newspaper and an exhibition. There are three categories 1. Images from a Camera Phone (Under 18s) 2. My Hampshire (Over 18s) 3. Patterns in Nature (Over 18s) The winner in Category 1 will receive a £50 voucher from London Camera Exchange Pro Shop, Civic Centre, Southampton and the runner-up will receive a £25 voucher from The Carphone Warehouse, Romsey. Winners in Categories two and three will win a day out with a photographer from the Advertiser’s parent company Newsquest plus a year’s membership to Viewfinders Camera Club, worth £50.

The runners-up will receive a year's membership to Viewfinders Camera Club.

The judging panel will include a senior member of Viewfinders Camera Club, a Newsquest picture editor, and a renowned local artist.

The shortlisted images in each section will be available to view by the public in a digital slideshow in Romsey Abbey on the weekend of July 12-13 as part of the Romsey Festival. The winners will be contacted during the week commencing July 21 and invited to see their images printed, mounted and on display at the Viewfinders annual exhibition at King John's House, Romsey (July 25 - August 3).

The winning images will also be published in the Advertiser of that week. Entrants should enter the email address into the subject box and should populate the email body with the following details: their name, daytime telephone number/mobile phone number and image titles. Images must be in JPEG format and each image must be no larger than 2MB.

There is a separate address to email images to for each category as follows:

Category 1: Images from a Camera Phone (Under 18s) - vfcompu18@yahoo.co.uk

Category 2: My Hampshire (Over-18s)  - vfcompymyhants@yahoo.co.uk

Category 3: Patterns in Nature (Over-18s) - vfcomppatterns@yahoo.co.uk

Rules:
Entrants must not submit  images that have won any previous photographic competition(s).
Employees of Newsquest Media (Southern) Ltd & their families and Viewfinders Camera Club members and their families are not permitted to enter the competition.
Entrants may enter up to three images in each category.
Images deemed unsuitable by the judging panel will be disqualified.