LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OF A YEAR COMPETITION
Landscape Competition
Now in the fifth successful year, the Take a perspective – Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards is open for entries and you have until mid-July to upload your cinema for a possibility to win £10,000. ‘Take a view’, the thought of eminent landscape photographer, Charlie Waite, is one of the nation’s most sparkling detailed awards and the poke for the 2011 leader is on. Entrants have until 15th Jul to come in the 2011 Awards by submitting their photographs of the British landscape. The foe is open to everybody and, for the first time this year, you can come in up to twenty-five photographs opposite the 4 categories. There is an sparkling esteem account value £20,000, together with £10,000 for the altogether winner. There is also a special category for those underneath 16, so the total family can get involved. Unlike many other detailed competitions, ‘Take a view’ celebrates the United Kingdom only, charity photographers worldwide the event to showcase their images of this richly different and singular country.
Now that open has eventually arrived and holidays are on the horizon, what better way to applaud than to get outdoor with a camera and constraint the surrounding landscape? From forlorn beaches to nation towns and civic skylines, the UK’s landscapes are a undiluted stadium for even the most gifted photographer and with categories for civic and unpractical landscapes, as well as for more exemplary views, there is copiousness of range to glow your imagination.
The 2011 Awards are being hold in organisation with Network Rail and there is a special territory for photography of the British rail network – Lines in the Landscape. David Higgins, Network Rail arch senior manager said, “Every day for over a century the railway has helped people transport opposite the length and extent of Britain. Those journeys can take people opposite fantastic structures, such as the Forth Bridge and Ribblehead viaduct, where people can knowledge indeed extraordinary views of the panorama and our cities. “Network Rail has the special avocation of safeguarding and compelling this bequest as well as structure a complicated rail network for the 21st century. We are unapproachable to go on to await this competition, and even more so to have a special endowment for the best photography of our rail network. Travelling by rail is apropos ever more popular, and we goal that, through this competition, even more people will recognize the beauty and significance in Britain today.” Awards founder, Charlie Waite, pronounced “Every year, we am impressed by the certain reply that the Awards receive; both from entrants and those who revisit the exhibition. Everybody is photographing and we am assured that these particular moments of creativity assistance us in our bland lives. We are gay that Network Rail are ancillary us for the second year. Their special endowment for images of railways in the landscape positively sparked an seductiveness in 2010 and yielded some overwhelming results and we are very much seeking brazen to seeing
this year’s entries.”
All entries to the endowment contingency be uploaded around the foe website, www.take-a-view.co.uk and the shutting date is 15th Jul 2011. Entry fees apply.
Full conditions and conditions can be found on the site.
An muster of the winning and commended entries will premiere at the National Theatre in London from 5th Dec 2011 and all successful entries will also crop up in a overwhelming book by AA Publishing.
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