Beautiful images of wood can be seen everywhere: a tree standing alone on a hill, wooden cladding catching the evening light, an old wooden house defying the elements, details of a wood construction, a wood boat reflecting in the water, a close-up of a wood knot.  As a living material, wood catches the eye of most people in ways that are sometimes obvious, sometimes not so obvious. Are you able to capture the beauty of wood by the art of photograhy and turn your fascination into beautiful photographs?
Building Europe, the European Wood Magazine, wishes to showcase this fascination and asks you to send in pictures with a brief text describing the location and circumstances under which you took the picture.

The rules are simple. There is no age limit and each entrant may enter a maximum of three shots.  You may be an architect, builder or home owner and be especially proud of a picture which captures the essence of your design, construction or home. Or perhaps you just stumbled on something beautiful during an afternoon walk – do not hesitate to send it in.  A selection of these pictures will be featured in the next issue of Building Europe.
Share your fascination and maybe you will win our first prize: a Nikon D70 kit with 17-80mm DX Nikkor lens.
To enter the competition, please send a print, tif or jpeg digital file, before March 31th 2005 together with your name, telephone and e-mail to:
Nordic Timber Council
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or by snailmail
Nordic Timber Council AB
Olofsgatan 10
SE-111 36 Stockholm
If you go out in the woods today, you better bring your camera!
The competition is about the art of photography and the fascination for wood. The sender may only submit pictures of which he is the copyright holder. Building Europe waivers any responsibility on infringement thereof. By sending in material a participant agrees with the condition that Building Europe and its partners can publish the photo free of charge in either printed media or on a website. Reselling the pictures by Building Europe or its partners is strictly prohibited. Building Europe will become the owner of the sent material. There will be no correspondence on the seclusion of the competition. The winner will be notified. 
Members of the editorial team of Building Europe and their families are excluded from participation.