The Guardian, that stalwart bastion of not being the Times, together with iStockphoto, bastion of not being fotolia, is holding a photography competition. The theme: the British Zeitgeist. I’m not entirely sure if the irony there is on purpose or not. First of all, the zeitgeist in Britain is apparently that only terrorists take pictures. Also, zeitgeist is. . .erm. . .not a British word.

Snark aside; the prizes ain’t great – in fact, they won’t even buy you a decent camera, but the terms are fair; you keep the rights to your pics. My assumption would have been that iStock would get to license them inb seven sizes starting at a dollar each.

(Britain iS)