This week the Croydon Champions campaign launches a new competition that anyone can enter.

We are looking for a photograph which captures the very best of Croydon. Whether you have a state-of-the art digital camera or an old Box Brownie we want your photographs of the borough.

It can be a shot of Croydonians going about their daily business, one of our local landmarks or someone or something that captures the very essence of the place you are most proud of.

Entries will be judged by the Champions committee and the winner will have his or her photograph included in a magazine later in the year.

The person who takes the best picture will also be invited, along with one guest, to the Croydon Champions award ceremony in November.

And it will also be displayed in the window of Allders department store in North End.

Croydon Guardian assistant editor Danny Brierley said: "We are looking for something that makes people feel proud of Croydon, just like our Champions campaign.

"You don't have to be a professional to enter and it doesn't have to be something that knocks us off our feet, it simply has to say something special about Croydon."

This competition is open to everyone who lives in Croydon and there is no age limit, so both children and adults are invited to enter.

Pictures must be taken with a film or digital camera and can be posted or emailed to us as a jpeg.

Unfortunately we are unable to accept mobile telephone pictures, as they are often not good enough to reproduce professionally.

Each picture must not be larger than 6in x 4in in size and should depict what you think makes Croydon champion.

The Champions committee will choose the winning entry and it will feature in the souvenir brochure produced in time for the gala awards reception held in November.

- Send your entries to newsdesk@croydonguardian.co.uk or post your photograph to Croydon Guardian, Newspaper House, 34 - 44 London Road, Morden, SM4 5BR. Closing date for entries is Friday, August 18.