Well if you live in the US and Canada that is. Well most of Canada. If you live in Quebec you can whistle for it apparently.

Lego Systems Inc have announced the 2nd annual Creation Nation Creativity Awards. Kids between 6 and 13 have to come up with a way to get around everday challenges and submit a paper for the chance to win $5,000 to go towards things like craft supplies or lessons.

With over 1,000 kids entering last year the competition is going to be tough but if you have that spark of an idea you have to be in it to win it.

Thanks to Geekdad for the heads up

On March 20, there will be the first ever World Film Photography Day. It’s got to that stage where film photographers have to push to be remembered almost.

Over at Foreignlight Julia Scho is running a small blog carnival to highlight the day and get people thinking about their photography. Answer a few questions and if you get your reply in before the 5th March and you live within the EC your in with a chance of getting one of her disposable cameras to use on the day.

I’ve long been a fan of film photography but I lack many of the skills needed to be a succesful film photographer and I don’t have the cash to work on them. This is where digital comes into it’s own as you have no development costs but at the same time it looses that mystique that film has. Up until very recently I still used my trusty Canon compact over my digital when I wanted good crisp photos.

As I mentioned earlier its almost as if the film photographers by having this day are standing on a box shouting “Hey we’re still here you know!” I walked into my local camera shop the other day and was actually shocked to find where they once had a wall of film to choose from they now had a small display of memory cards and maybe 6 brands/types of film. They didn’t even have any B&W film in stock!

I’ve still got a few rolls of film about the house so I may just give this a go but I think I actually may invest in a couple of disposable cameras and give one to our eldest for him to record his day and I’ll use the other to try and get our middle child interested in photography. He’s got the toy camera but he’s at that age where looking through the lens is more fun that looking through the eyepiece! It would be good to let the boys know where photography came from, they see me with my camera all the time so it’s about time I started passing on the fascination.