TIPS officer wins Canon Photo Marathon

Canon Marketing Philippines held its annual event last year called Canon PhotoMarathon in the different regions of the country. One of them was in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur for the Northern Luzon group held on September 10, 2011.

Canon has the vision of building the Philippines as a country of ImageNation citizens. This photomarathon is a one-day photo contest that tests the skills and creativity of the participants. It started in 2006 with increasing number of participants per year. In Northern Luzon area alone, there were around 200 participants. One of them was the representative of The Ilocandia Photographic Society (TIPS).

Joseph Andie Lamug, board director of TIPS represented his organization in the said event under the DSLR category. They were given themes to interpret with two and half hours to tackle and find the best shot of these challenges.

He depicted in his work the pottery in Vigan City and it came out to be the best one in the photomarathon. Joseph took home the bacon. He won the grand prize in the DSLR category and took home a brand new Canon EOS 600D, Tripod, Loot Bag with SD cards, bag, etc. as prizes. He was so happy to win in the said photomarathon, "I almost missed joining this because of my work", he relates.