Make it snappy

That's the question being asked by disappointed officers at the city council this week.

It comes after a disappointing response to an appeal for prize snapshots for the council's annual Photographic Competition, featured in the winter issue of the council's 'Your District Council Matters' magazine.

Residents were asked to send in their favourite photograph of a scene from the district such as a summer event in Morecambe, a sunset across the bay, one of Lancaster's historic buildings or a landscape from the Lune Valley.

The response and quality of photographs for the senior section has, to date, been amazing.

But there has been very little interest in the junior section, for cameramen and women aged under under 17.

Now, the council is urging children and young adults to get snapping and put themselves in line for a prize.

The inners will see their picture your adorning the front cover of a future edition of the council magazine, which is sent to some 61,000 households across the district.

And as an added bonus they will also be put on display in the Folly Gallery on Friday, March 21.

There is just one week until the closing date for entries of Friday, February 27 - so if you wish to enter you have got to make it snappy.

Slides and prints can be posted to Cath Gillin, Communications Office, Lancaster Town Hall, Lancaster LA1 1PJ.

Digital images must be a minimum of 300 dpi, in jpeg or tif format and emailed to Cath Gillin at cgillin@lan-caster.gov.uk or sent on disk to the above address.

Entrants must add their name, age, address and a contact telephone number with each picture.