Ready, set, shoot!

Are you as enthusiastic about photography as I am? If the answer is yes, you will be thrilled to hear about the photography marathon.

"A marathon? But I'm not sporty!"

Don't worry, a photography marathon is not so much about running - unless you are bad at time management, because you have exactly twelve hours to complete it. In those twelve hours, your goal is to take 24 pictures to given topics. The topics are kept quite general, for example "yellow", "fragile" or "window" so that the participants can be very creative.

There are only a few rules you have to obey if you want to take part in such a photo marathon:

• You have to use a digital camera, and you cannot use your mobile phone.
• You have to sign up in advance and pay a participation fee.
• At the end of the day there have to be exactly 25 pictures in the right order on your memory card.
• You have to return the memory card by 9pm.

On the day of the marathon, you can collect your starting number at 9am and then it's time to shoot some wonderful pictures - but don't forget that your first picture has to be the one of your starting number. Even there you can already be creative. For example, take a look at the participant number 33. He took a picture of bus line number 33!

As I said before, you have to return your memory card at the end of the day and a jury will then have a look at all the pictures. The winners will be informed about a month after the marathon and will be invited to a ceremony. There are always valuable prices such as cameras!

There will be a photo marathon this May or June in my city. Some friends and I are planning to participate - I will let you know how it was afterwards!