'Power Shot Shoot Out':

Nelum wins prestigious Canon amateur contest

Sri Lankan photo enthusiast Nelum Wickramathunga beat 710 applicants from across Asia by winning the prestigious Canon amateur photography contest 'Power Shot Shoot Out' held recently by Canon Singapore Pte Ltd.

The contest attracted 1,971 applicants from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Philippines and Sri Lanka, through facebook and Canon Powershot website. The finalists and winning images were selected by an expert international panel of photographers and thereafter was opened to the public voting system. Nelum Wickramathunga's photograph was selected as the winner in the Capture Life category, receiving the highest number of public votes.

"I am thrilled and this is such a pleasant surprise," Nelum, Wickramathunga winner of this contest said. She was notified about the contest while surfing the Metropolitan Facebook fan page.

The Canon "PowerShot Shoot Out" contest brought together amateurs with a passion for photography and was open to citizens of South and South East Asia. Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd organized this contest in an attempt to demonstrate the vibrant range, high tech minimalist camera designs and the crisp image quality of Canon compact range of cameras through the eyes of its users.

Each photographer were required to submit three photographs under the categories of Turn Night Into Light, Set Your Sights Further and Capture Life.

" It was an unexpected achievement, Ii am really happy to be awarded with such a valuable camera "said Nelum with the Canon PowerShot SX500 IS Digital Camera

"We are very pleased that this regional contest were won by a Sri Lankan photo enthusiast," said Taslim Rahaman, Director/CEO Regions of Metropolitan Office (Pvt) Ltd and consumer division. "We hope this would be an encouragement to young photography lovers to take their passion to greater heights," he said.