Competition

The ‘Sport & The City’ competition, supported by Lonely Planet, asks you to capture beautiful sport and the city moments set against an ever changing background

We are not just looking for everyday sports reportage but images that truly capture the spirit and emotion of your city – each photograph should look to capture 3 fundamental principles - Sport, Style and Creativity. You can easily follow the step by step guide and upload the images to the online gallery, along with a caption to create more depth and substance around the image – this is your turn to create an online travel guide!

If you do not want to enter the competition you can still take part by voting for your favourite image each week and you will still be in with a chance of winning Lonely Planet books or ellesse products.

Each week the "Photo of the week" image will be selected by a judging panel and the winner will bag themselves a stylish Nikon Coolpix camera. The voting on the website is to show your love for your favourite image.

After the competition closes on the 8th August 2010, 4 winners will be chosen by a judging panel (including a Lonely Planet Expert) and will be given the opportunity to travel to one of four different European cities. The cities are London, Barcelona, Rome or Athens. The 5 day trip will include allowance money, as well as hotel and flights costs covered. The final winners will also document their trip with a brand new Nikon SRL digital camera. ellesse and Lonely Planet products will also be given to the overall winners.

Lonely Planet were always the perfect partner for this project – as the market leader in travel guides they have built ‘a nice little universe dedicated to travel and travelers’ and with over 5 million unique users each month at LonelyPlanet.com, they offer a unique connection to a vast network of travelers worldwide.