I'm not too sure if anyone else is from Australia (Elmark was, but I'm not too sure if he is still here), but Canon Australia is having its Photo5 competition again (
http://www.canon.com.au/photo5/competition/default.aspx). I've registered
The idea is that they send you 5 random items, and you'd have to photography each one in a way that you think is most creative, for a $5000 per category prize (further divided into a pro and an amateur categories)
The objects this time around is a ribbon, bubbles, tealight, cocktail umbrella, and a crayon.
This is going to be fun, as well as some agonising thinking.
Ideas anyone?