Canon India Pvt. Limited recently held its third Canon Photo Marathon India, a photography contest simultaneously held in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangaluru. The Photo Marathon is a one day theme based contest, aimed to bring together photographic talents in the battle to capture the best pictures captured under tight deadlines. This contest that tested the skills, creativity, endurance and the ability to perform under pressure was open to all camera users and attracted more than 2000 entries.

The format of the Canon Photo Marathon 2011 involved each contestant being judged on three theme based competition that were held from 9.00hrs-17:00hrs. The contestants were given approx two hours to create photographic masterpieces, in line with assigned three themes. The highlight of the event was the Grand prize of an 8-day Photo tour to Australia in the guidance of renowned photographer Triston Yeo for top 2 winners, from each country. The other winners would be rewarded the EOS 1100D, EOS 550D and EOS 600D from the exciting range of Canon cameras. The “Most Inspiring Photograph of the Day” from each city would also win an ESO 1100D from the kitty of Canon.

Canon Photo Marathon in India, was held at St. Xavier’s college, Mumbai where the event was flagged off by Kensaku Konishi, President and CEO, Canon India and fashion-celebrity photographer Daboo Ratnani. In Delhi, the event was held at Kalka Public School, New Delhi, and was flagged off by Dr. Alok Bharadwaj, Sr. VP, Canon India and leading Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan. In Bangaluru, the event was held at St Joseph's Indian High School, Vittal Malya Road was flagged off by Aindrita Ray.

Canon Photo Marathon India is the regional round of Canon Photo marathon Asia 2011. The Canon Photo Marathon Asia is one of the most recognized and largest photo competition. This September, the Canon Photo Marathon Asia 2011 entered its 9th consecutive year with the contest that spanned five countries- India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.