Topic: Photography competitions

[Janet_P]

It's competition season again and I thought I'd start a thread with three competitions that you guys could enter.
I hope you realise I'm seriously cutting my chances of winning anything by letting you know about these. But hey, I'm all heart 

Feed Your Imagination
Deadline: 30th June
Entry fee: free
Entry Limits: 5 for each category
Categories:
Food + People
Food For Thought
Food Glorious Food
Prize: £10,000 overall winner + £500 runners up
More Details: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/seedsofchange


RHS Photographic Competition 2006
Deadline: 28th July
Entry fee: £5 per photo (£4 for members)
Entry Limits: no restriction
Categories:
Plant Portrait
Close-up
Tree or shrub
Garden view
Wildlife in Garden
People in Garden
Prize: £1,000 overall winner + winner and runner up prizes
More Details: http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/photocomp2005.asp


Black and White Photography Magazine
Black and White Photographer of the Year
Deadline: 25th August
Entry fee: £5
Entry Limits: 3 for each category
Categories:
Portfolio (4 photos)
People
Places
Still Life and Abstract
Printer of the Year
Digital Printer of the Year
Young Photographer of the Year
Prize: loads of stuff, including Digital Camera, tripod, day in the darkroom with Robin Bell
More Details: This month's Black and White Photography Magazine



If you have anymore to add, please do.
And Good Luck

Janet

[Skorj]

Thanks Janet. This is a great precis, and some I should look at myself. Appreciate the effort. Skorj.

[Ed Wenn]

Janet, your perennial enthusiasm for these events is inspiring and every year I genuinely appreciate you sending this info around to the crew, but as you know I can never seem to get my act together in time to submit anything. It's usually the printing thing that trips me up. I would have submitted something to the RHS competition (mainly because the stuff that wins most years is pretty pants), but was tripped up there by the fact that they need you to include the Latin name of the flora that you photograph...I always go along to Wisley and snap away for a couple of hours, come back with some stuff that I like a lot....but have no idea what it is. The Latin names rule kind of annoyed me to be honest. Surely that's their job; they're the RHS after all. I'm just a stupid IT geek with an old school camera collection and an itchy finger.

 

[Janet_P]

Ed, I know what you mean about the RHS thing with names, I don't think I included the Latin names in my entries last year and obviously that's why I didn't win 
I've taken a couple of shots recently specifically with some of these competitions in mind. Like doing collaborations, I find that competitions are a really good way to focus your mind, even if you don't end up entering them.

Janet

[Ed Wenn]

Janet, anytime you need an excuse as to why you didn't win a comp, just get in touch....I have literally hundreds of really soild reasons.