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(QLD) Powerhouse Museum has launched an international ‘Trainspotting’ photographic competition. All steam, rail and photography enthusiasts are called to attend!

On the 27th January 2010, the Director of the Powerhouse Museum, Dr Dawn Casey, announced the launch of an international photographic competition, to celebrate the Powerhouse’s extensive rail and steam collection, and the 25th anniversary of Steamfest in Maitland, New South Wales, this April 2010.

Amateur and professional photographers from around the world are invited to enter Trainspotting: the Powerhouse Museum Photo Competition 2010 for a chance to win AUD$5,000 and be exhibited in the Powerhouse!

“Photography is a significant component of the Powerhouse collection, including the work of photographers who have recorded our industrial progress, and many of the images document the history of rail travel in New South Wales,” said Dr Casey.

Enthusiasts are able to share their passion for trains and railways by entering a photograph they have taken capturing railway infrastructure or locomotives powered by steam, diesel electric or electric.

A panel will judge the entries based on composition, technique, content and creativity. The overall prize winner will be awarded AUD$5,000 and category winners will receive AUD$2,000. Winners and highly commended entries will also see their photo displayed in an exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum from May to August this year.

There are six competition categories entrants are invited to submit photographs.

• Steam trains: Photograph’s subject is either a locomotive, or locomotives and their carriages taken in daylight.

• Diesel electric or electric trains: Photograph’s subject is either a locomotive, or locomotives and their carriages taken in daylight.

• Night shot: Photograph’s subject is steam trains, diesel electric or electric trains and also railway stations and platforms (with or without locomotives).

• Railway infrastructure: Photograph’s subject includes buildings and permanent installations such as stations, platforms, tracks, rail bridges, rail signage, turntables, and so on, taken in daylight or at night.

• Trainspotting: Photograph’s subject is the hobby of observing and recording the numbers of railway locomotives, taken in daylight or at night.

• Railway workers: Photograph’s subject is platform staff, train crew and staff, permanent way and infrastructure workers, depot workers and so on, taken in daylight or at night.

How to enter:

Online via the Powerhouse Museum group on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/powerhouse_museum_photo_competition

By post or in person accompanied by a completed entry form available on the Powerhouse Museum website.

Entrants must be 18 years of age or older.

Winners will be announced at Steamfest in Maitland, over the weekend of 17 and 18 April 2010, and also contacted by the Powerhouse.

Closing date:
All entries must be received by 5.00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday 31 March 2010.

For all the details and to enter visit www.powerhousemuseum.com/photocompetition