Another month gone by and plenty has happened!

The EOS Photo5 competition came to a close last month with lots of excitement and anticipation as well as a little bit of controversy thrown in for good measure.  We hope everyone who entered took something away from the competition - whether this was inspiration, a new shooting technique, a different way of looking at a shot, or of course for some, a prize!

Thanks to everyone who entered – I’m already looking forward to even more creativity in the 2010 competition... I know, I know - I’m getting ahead of myself...

And to the winners, congratulations! I hope you enjoy your new EOS 5D Mark II kit and put it to good use on your trip to Queensland with professional adventure photographer Chris Bray.

On that note, I wanted to let you all know that the EOS 5D Mark II was recently named Camera magazine’s ‘Professional Digital SLR of the Year’ thanks to its superior quality and creative controls - the "perfect combination of performance, portability and price”. The EOS 500D was also an award winner, being named ‘Consumer Digital SLR of the Year’ due to its ease of use and consumer-friendly technologies that make creative photography fun. We were stoked but not necessarily surprised!

The Camera magazine awards began in 1981 and are decided by a panel of judges made up of the magazine’s editor, Paul Burrows, key contributors, photographers and a ‘typical’ consumer.

By now, most of you will have seen that we have launched a new challenge - EOS 1wall - on the World of EOS to keep you enthusiast photographers inspired post EOS Photo5. If you haven’t checked it out, I’d definitely suggest you do. It’s already proving to be hugely popular with 90 images uploaded in response to the first theme set by EOS professional photographer Graham Monro – emotions.

Oh and I thought you guys might be keen to know that Gay Campbell and Denis Montalbetti  (two of Australia's most celebrated photographers ) currently have an exhibition running in Sydney. ‘The Sensualists’ provides a fairytale journey through the imagination of Campbell and Montalbetti, which if you know them, is sure to be unique and impressive! The exhibition is currently open to the public until 23 January 2010 at the Australian Centre for Photography (257 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney).

That’s it from me. As it’ll probably be early in the New Year that I upload my next post, MERRY CHRISTMAS!! And best of luck making it through the silly season unscathed!