Do you love to take photos of local wildlife? If so, please do enter the Wild Didcot photo competition.
Sustainable Didcot are holding their second Wild Didcot Cafe event on Saturday 13 May at Didcot Civic Hall. In addition to stands from exhibitors, crafts, nature art and games there is a photo competition, which invites residents to submit photos taken locally of our natural world.
What is the photo competition theme?
The theme is Wild Didcot. You can interpret this however you wish, although it must relate to nature, not a wild night out at Broadways!
Suitable subjects might include wildlife gardens, birds and animals, close-ups of beetles or plants or your local nature area such as the ponds on Great Western Park or Mowbray Field. Photos of domestic pets and farm animals are not eligible.
All photos must be taken locally, within approximately 1 mile radius of Didcot’s border.
How do I enter?
Choose your three favourite photos which meet the brief and email them to wilddidcot@gmail.com.
In the subject, please state whether you are under or over 18 years old, as there are prizes for each category. Feel free to include more information in your email, for example, where the photo was taken and what it is. However, judging will be based on the photo alone. Judges will consider composition, creativity, originality and interpretation of theme.
Please keep each photo to a maximum size of 3Mb.
Shortlisting and judging
The closing date is midnight Sunday 30 April 2023.
Six photos from each category (under 18/over 18) will be shortlisted; all of these photos will be displayed at the Wild Didcot Cafe. The overall winner from each category will be notified in advance and presented (if available) with their prize at the Wild Didcot Cafe on Saturday 13 May.
What are the prizes?
There is one prize for each of the over 18 and under 18 year old categories of a trailcam, an outdoor wildlife camera. Pop it in your garden and see what wildlife turns up!
Terms and conditions
By entering this competition you confirm and warrant that:
- Your photo was taken within approximately 1 mile of Didcot’s border.
- You are the sole author of each entry and that it is your original work.
- You own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights of each image.
- You have not licensed or disposed of any rights in the image that would conflict with the competition.
- Sustainable Didcot, the competition organiser and the prize sponsor have permission to use the imagery provided as long as full credit is given to the image owner.
- If you are a winner or shortlisted photographer you will take part in and cooperate fully with reasonable publicity and to the use of your name and photograph in such publicity.
- If you are under the age of 18 you must have permission to enter from your parent or guardian. By submitting an entry for the competition, your parent or guardian is deemed to have given such consent and to agree to the use of the entry as described in these terms and conditions.
Entries received after Sunday 30 April 2023 will not be considered.
Cropping and minor digital enhancements are allowed.
The competition is open to anyone except those directly involved with the competition and judging (including their families and relatives).
The judges decision is final.
