It's a very wide topic so try and be imaginitive. Human interest and unusual aspects can often help a picture so think laterally.

The winning photograph will be published in The Times newspaper, and the weekly winners will have their picture published on the homepage of Times Online Travel each Friday until the closing date of September 30.

The monthly prize, courtesy of Canon, is an EOS 350D digital SLR camera worth £699, as well as a place on a travel photography course weekend at Kings College London (see www.wordsandpix.co.uk),

New Lonely Planet pictorial photography books go to the weekly winners.

All entries will be considered for publication, but only residents of the UK or Republic of Ireland are eligible for the prizes.

Make sure you compress the pictures to a maximum of 200kb per photo in the Jpeg format, any e-mails bigger than 1Mb will not be considered.

Also, we require images at 450 pixels wide - no narrower - in case they are required for publication online. And please retain any high resolution originals in case they are selected for publication in the newspaper.

Send your entries to travelpictures@timesonline.co.uk.

Try to make the pictures as varied as possible. Drab landscapes don't win prizes, and try to avoid pictures of your kids frolicking - though it is often good to have a human touch.

A good place to start before deciding what to submit would be by reading the articles in this section that are stuffed full of advice.

Remember to include caption text and other details - where the photograph was taken, the circumstances if appropriate and the equipment used.

For details of Canon's range of cameras visit www.canon.co.uk or call 08705 143 723

Terms and conditions

1. Employees of Times Newspaper Limited ("TNL"), News International Limited group, Lonely Planet or Canon UK Limited, or associated companies may not enter.

2. TNL will not be liable for any failure of receipt of entries. TNL takes no responsibility for any entries that are lost, delayed, illegible, corrupted, damaged, incomplete or otherwise invalid.

3. Each entry must be a photograph taken by an amateur photographer and must be the original work of the author and not previously published. Entries may be rejected in the sole discretion of the judges, including for reasons of obscenity, defamation or invasion of privacy.

4. Prize winners must be resident in the United Kingdon or Republic of Ireland (ROI). Entries from other locations will be considered for publication in The Times or on Times Online, but will not be eligible for prizes.

5. The judges will select in their sole discretion a weekly winner who will have their picture(s) published on Times Online, and, if eligible (see above) will receive a travel photography book.

6. Weekly winners will also be considered for the overall prizes. The overall winner will receive a Canon digital camera, and a place on a weekend photography course in London (provided by www.wordsandpix.co.uk).

7. Travel, accommodation and other expenses are not included in the photography course prize. If the winners are not able to attend (or cannot be contacted) the place will be offered to the entrants adjudged to be next best. Available dates will be confirmed after the competition has closed and the winners have been notified.

8. Entries must be received by 11:59:59 on September 30, 2006 (UK time). They must be e-mailed to travelpictures@thetimes.co.uk as Jpeg attachments, with each picture not exceeding 200Kb. Each picture should be at least 450 pixels wide. The e-mail, of not over 1Mb in total file size, must include the entrant's name, address and information regarding the pictures - where they were taken, when, any relevant circumstances and equipment used.

9. Entrants must be over 18 years of age. TNL reserves the right to publish entries other than the winning entries, and publication does not necessarily mean that the entrant has won a prize.

10. The winners will be the entrants whose photographs, in the opinion of the judges, demonstrate the greatest flair, technique and originality.

11. Entrants will retain copyright in their submitted entries, however by entering, all entrants licence TNL a worldwide royalty free perpetual licence to publish and use each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes. In particular, all entrants licence TNL the right to print their entry on Times Online and in The Times magazine.

12. The overall winners shall be notified by October 31, 2006.

13. Entries will not be acknowledged or returned.

14. Only one entry per person and a cash alternative to prizes is not available.

15. Winners and entrants must agree to their names and general locations being used for publicity purposes by The Times and Sunday Times newspapers in any and all media.

16. Winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.

17. For a list of winners please send a stamped envelope to Times Newspaper Limited Competitions Department, 1 Virginia Street, London, E98 1RL, England, stating for which competition you would like winners details.

18. Any breach of these competition rules by an entrant will void their entry. Misrepresentative or fraudulent entries will invalidate an entry.

19. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

20. TNL reserve the right at any time to cancel, modify or supersede the competition (including altering prizes) if, in our sole discretion, a competition is not capable of being conducted as specified.

21. Competition rules published in The Times or Times Online form part of these rules.