Following on from the huge success of previous competitions that have attracted thousands of entries from around the world, O’Briens launches its eighth annual photography competition “Dare to Dream” sponsored by Hot Press Magazine and Fujifilm Ireland.

Six winners in total will be chosen based on their interpretation of the theme “Dare to Dream”, and will be featured in Hot Press. Each photograph will be turned into a postcard and displayed in O’Briens stores worldwide.

New to this year’s competition, the O’Briens Hot Press Music Photography Award will be presented to the photographer who submits the most outstanding music related photograph based on the theme “Dare to Dream”.

Commencing on Wednesday 1st March 2006 and running until Friday 29th April, 2006, the competition is open to all photographers, amateur, professional, student and club photographers throughout the world.

Photographs entered should include details of name, address, telephone number, email address and image title. Entrants can attach an entry form which is available from all O’Briens outlets around the world, Ireland, UK, Spain, Australia, and Asia, forms can also be downloaded at www.obriensonline.com, or www.hotpress.com.

Six winning photographs chosen by the judging panel will each receive a Fujifilm digital camera plus Fujifilm Digital prints. The winner of the O’Briens Hot Press Music Photography Award will be featured in Hot Press, and a receive a year's subscription to Hot Press magazine.

All six winning photographs will be printed as postcards, which will be freely available in more than 270 O’Brien’s stores around the world.