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CPN has launched a new opportunity for photographers - Editor’s Choice - that offers you the chance to have your photographs seen and edited by some of the top photo editors with Getty Images’ Aidan Sullivan the first guest editor who’ll be viewing, assessing and editing your submitted photography.

With just one click of a mouse you can upload your photographs for viewing by a respected photo editor and your photos will be showcased on the CPN website if they make the final shortlist selection. Via that one click aspiring photographers looking for expert feedback can upload their photos, as many as they wish, with the first chance to upload photographs open until 30 April 2009 to join in with the first Editor’s Choice. Following that the outstanding entries chosen by Aidan Sullivan will be posted on the CPN website on 15 May 2009 to showcase the cream of the entries to a global online audience.

CPN’s new Editor’s Choice section gives you the opportunity to…

• Have your photographs reviewed by one of the world’s top photo editors.
• Pit your photography against Canon users around the world.
• Feature in a major global showcase on the CPN website.

Guest editors

Every two months a new guest photo editor will be named and a new selection of photographs can be submitted. The first guest editor in the ‘hot seat’ is the hugely respected Aidan Sullivan, vice president of photo assignments for Getty Images.

© Aidan Sullivan

Sullivan is the former director of photography for The Sunday Times magazine in London and, in 2004, was one of the co-founders of image.net, a leading distributor of high-resolution publicity materials for major entertainment companies.

In 1989 Aidan Sullivan founded the Ian Parry Scholarship to offer a bursary for aspiring young photojournalists and Sullivan is also a member of the international judging panel for the Visa D’Or awards at the annual Visa Pour l’Image international festival of photojournalism. He won the International Picture Editor of the Year at Visa Pour l’Image 2000 and received an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal Photographic Society in 2004.

To enter

You can submit images to Editor’s Choice in two easy steps.

* Step 1 – Click on the ‘Submit your photo - upload now’ link in the box on the top right hand side of this page. Select your photo to upload (not more than 7.5Mb and with minimum resolution of 800x600 pixels). Enter your name and e-mail details and tick the appropriate boxes. Then click to upload your photo.

* Step 2 – The screen on Step 2 displays the EXIF data from your submitted photo and you can add or alter the displayed shooting information (if your photo is successfully selected for publication this data will be displayed with your picture). Once you’re happy with all the information, just click ‘submit photo’ and your image will be reviewed by CPN’s guest photo editor. You will get an on screen message to confirm a successful photo submission.

Please note the uploaded photos to Editor’s Choice can be used by Canon for promotional material and those selected to feature on CPN and via the site they will also be available for viewing by a wide audience of top professionals in the world of imaging. So, why not start uploading now!

To find out more about how the new CPN Editor’s Choice works and to upload your photographs to be reviewed and edited by Aidan Sullivan just click here.