The winner of the Anglepoise competition

A few weeks ago we launched a competition along with Anglepoise for Strong Islanders to send in images of their Anglepoise lamps to win a copy of the Kenneth Grange book ‘Making Britain Modern’.

The winner chosen by Simon Terry who is head of innovation and development at Anglepoise Ltd is Jett Abrook from Southsea. Jett used his Anglepoise to light his collection of cars.

We also had some amazing entries from Paul Thurlow and Philip Bennett.

All photographs are submitted below. In order – The winner Jett Abrook, Paul Thurlow and Philip Bennett.

Jett Abrook with his copy of the book.

Below Paul Thurlow and Philip Bennett.

Anglepoise Competition closes this Friday

The competition to win the Kenneth Grange book ‘Making Britain Modern’ donated by Portsmouth company Anglepoise closes this Friday 11th November. To win a copy just send us a picture of your Anglepoise lamp. Email : claire.sambrook@gmail.com

Further details on the previous post – http://www.strong-island.co.uk/2011/10/25/anglepoise-portsmouth/

This is mine below.

Kings Theatre / Neb Web Competition

A competition between The King’s Theatre and Neb Web.

In June the Kings Theatre are offering you a night of fantasy and illusion, wonder and adventure with The National Black Light Theatre of Prague’s production of The Adventures of Baron von Munchausen! Neb Web have teamed up with the Kings to give you a chance to flex your creative muscles and win an exhibition of your work, tickets to see the show and more!

They are looking for eye-popping, jaw-dropping digital images on a Fantasy theme to put together for an exhibition at the Kings Theatre’s Dress Circle to accompany the show. They want fantastic creatures, mythical beasts, unlikely landscapes, dreamscapes and cryptic contraptions – send them your photographs, your designs, your illustrations and drawings…

The winners will be chosen for an exhibition in the Kings Theatre from 13th – 23rd June – everyone whose work they select will get a ticket to the show, a Kings Card (great for discounts from businesses in Albert Road and beyond, worth £20) and a private reception before the performance. The person who submits the very best entry will also be given a solo exhibition at the theatre in 2012.

How to Enter:
1)      Post your entries to NeBMedia’s Fan Page Wall by no later than June 1st, 2011.
2)      They will pick out a shortlist for the judges and ask for a full-size file to be sent.
3)      They will then let you know who’s won on June 10th

Further details on their Facebook page.

Hovertravel & Gunwharf Fireworks Competition

Gunwharf Quays are teaming up with Heart FM on 29 October 2010 at 7:30pm to light up Portsmouth harbour and put on a Halloween inspired fireworks display.

Hovertravel is offering Islanders (Isle of Wight & Portsea) a chance to win a free VIP return trip to the event at Gunwharf. This includes entrance into the Slug and Lettuce for complimentary drinks and canapes whilst watching the fireworks display in our exclusive VIP area and then return to the Isle of Wight along with some of the island’s VIPs on a secret charter departing from Gunwharf Marina.

To enter email your contact details to info@hovertravel.co.uk. Entrants will be placed into a free prize draw and 70 winners will be drawn at random and notified by email. To be in with a chance of winning please email your name, email address and telephone number by 25 October 2010.

Photo: David Sharp

FOTOsaurus Competition

So Lunar Park has arrived on Southsea Common. It really is a pretty enormous Ultrasauros and I am sure that the view from the sea is quite amazing.

Aspex are running a FOTOsaurus competition – details below. Get up close and personal.

FOTOsaurus! Visit the dinosaur sculpture and get creative with any type of kit, from camera phone to box brownie! This photography competition is open to all ages and abilities. Submit your snaps to aspex as prints, on disk or via Facebook or Flickr. Closing date 31 August 2010. If you missed the opening ceremony then view the video below.

Heather and Ivan Morison – Luna Park, 1 August 2010 from Aspex Gallery on Vimeo.

Hampshire’s Top Attractions Photography Competition

How would you like to see one of your photos displayed at 170m, at the top of the Spinnnaker Tower?
Enter the Hampshire’s Top Attractions Photography competition for this exclusive prize along with the chance to win family tickets to ALL Hampshire’s Top Attractions in 2011 plus a £100 photographic voucher.

From attractions including the iconic Spinnaker Tower and world-famous Beaulieu National Motor Museum, Marwell Wildlife and Winchester Cathedral, the competition is aimed at highlighting Hampshire tourism and encouraging visitors to start exploring the region.

The competition takes place from 10th July to until the 1st September and snappers of all ages can enter with both junior and adult categories. There are four themes available for each category: Family Fun, Animals and Nature, Hampshire Heritage, Food and Drink.

Photo entries are being submitted through the competition’s Flick Group.

To find out more and read up on the rules, etc check here.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage