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Photography Competition

The 2017 competition is closed - for the 2019 competition click here

The theme of the competition is ‘Snowdrops’
The theme is open to the interpretation of the photographer
​Think about snowdrops in unusual places, close-ups or with people, 

or massed, potted up, in the ground, or in unusual places;
crisp colour, or defining black and white.
​It’s up to you!

For this first year of the festival you may enter existing images you have

You can enter Prints or Digital Images
Prints should be a minimum of 7x5 inches and no greater than 10x8 inches.
Digital images should be a minimum of 2 megapixels and no greater than 8 megapixels.
Picture
There are three classes:
  • Under 16 - 1st prize £30
  • Over 16 - 1st prize £50
  • Club (for Camera Clubs)​
    1st prize £50
To enter a print, take a photograph of snowdrops and send a print of it to us with your completed entry form, click here, attached to the back of the print to:
​

Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival Photo Competition
1 The Budds
Shepton Mallet
Somerset, BA4 4DA

Please ensure that you sign your form.
To enter a digital image, take a photograph of snowdrops, complete an online entry form with the file name of the image at Lavlaron here then send your image via WeTransfer here to: yourphotos@sheptonsnowdropfestival.org.uk.  

Please ensure that you sign your online form with an uploaded image of your signature. 


Photos submitted on-line must be scanned to ensure that they are free from computer viruses.

Special Workshop

The Mid-Somerset Camera Club
​and the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival
are hosting a PRACTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
focussing on TIPS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING FLOWERS


The workshop will take place in Shepton Mallet
on Sunday 15 January 2017 
​– just in time for the competition!
Click here for more details

Rules

One image per entrant.

Prints should be a minimum of 7x5 inches and no greater than 10x8 inches. 
Digital images should be a minimum of 2 megapixels and no greater than 8 megapixels

Entry fee is £3.00 This has been waived for this inaugural year of the Festival.

The decision of the judges will be final.

All entries to be submitted by 
11 February 2017
Please make sure you have any necessary permissions to take photographs.

Consent is to be granted for images showing children by completing the appropriate section of the entry form. Images showing children will not be accepted  for the competition and be destroyed if permission has not been granted by the parent or guardian.

The Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival reserves the right to publish winning photographs and to use entries to promote the Snowdrop Festival in the future.

We regret it will not be possible to return photographs.

The Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival is an initiative of the ​Shepton Mallet Horticultural Society - a not-for-profit membership group

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  • Competitions 2020
    • Poetry Competition >
      • 2019 Poems
    • Photography Competiton >
      • 2019 Photo Comp Results
    • Competition Rules
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    • Snowdrop Gardens
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  • Get Involved
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