Plantlife photographic competition 2008

Wild plants of the UK through the seasons

Welcome to the 2008 Plantlife Photographic Competition, which has the theme of 'Wild plants of the UK through the seasons'.

This is your chance to have your photographs featured in our 20th anniversary calendar as we will be choosing 12 winning images to feature in a special calendar for 2009. One lucky overall winner will also receive a digital camera as the top prize for the competition.

We are looking for a range of images that cover the wild plants and fungi of the UK and represent the seasons of the year.

Be creative – be inventive – dig deep in your archives – and send us images that show plants and fungi in all their glory, in all types of weather at different times of the year.

Click here for our rules and guidelines on how to enter – or scroll down this page to see them in full below - and please do read these before entering your images for the competition.

The deadline for entries is 15th August so get snapping!

You can email your digital images by clicking here.

If you have any further questions after reading the rules and guidelines, please call us on 01722 342730.

Plantlife photographic competition 2008
Rules and entry guidelines

1. The subject for the 2008 Plantlife Photographic Competition is 'Wild Plants of the UK through the seasons'. Images should focus on wild plants and fungi but the theme remains open to artistic interpretation.

2. Entrants can submit up to twelve images (ideally across the seasons) either as high-resolution digital images, prints with a negative or slides, in colour or black and white.

3. Digital images should be a minimum of 300dpi at 100% and sent in JPEG or similar format.

4. Entrants should not be professional photographers (ie. your main income should not be derived from the sale of your images).

5. Entries must be taken in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

6. Images must not be manipulated except to remove spots or scratches. We reserve the right to exclude any image.

7. Employees of Plantlife, as well as their immediate families are not eligible to enter.

8. Each entry should be accompanied with the following details: your name, address, daytime telephone number, where each image was taken and the species if known.

9. Digital entries should be sent by email, accompanied by the details given above, to enquiries@plantlife.org.uk.

10. Transparencies/slides or prints should be posted to: Plantlife Photography Competition, 14 Rollestone Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 1DX.

11. The closing date is 15th August 2008.

12. No entries can be returned and receipt will not be acknowledged although applicants may phone or email to check that images have been received. Proof of posting is not proof of receipt. The organisers accept no responsibility for entries lost, damaged or delayed in the post.

13. A Plantlife panel will draw up a shortlist of images. A separate judging panel will then select 12 images from the shortlist to feature in the 2009 calendar. One overall winner will be chosen who will receive the prize of a digital camera.

14. All entries must be original work and must not have been previously published. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright in all photos entered and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries - you must send us written permission from the Parent/Guardian of anyone under the age of 18 featuring in images. A template letter is available for download by clicking here or by emailing enquiries@plantlife.org.uk.

15. By entering the competition, entrants grant the right for Plantlife and another publisher to publish and exhibit short listed images in Plantlife magazine, and any other media as they think fit, free of charge. Entrants will also be deemed to have consented to short listed images being used for the Plantlife 2009 calendar, or other printed matter, to be sold in aid of the Plantlife’s conservation work. No fee will be payable for this use. Entrants agree to take part in post-competition publicity as required.

16. The judges' decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

17. By entering photographs into the competition, entrants agree to be bound by these rules.