The National Countryside Photography Competition

By Laura Stringer on June 19th 2011

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This competition has now closed. Please view the entries below.

Click here to view all entries
Click here to view the County Winners
Click here to view the Regional Winners, Overall Winner and Photographs from St James's Palace. 

Can you take a photograph that encapsulates your Great British Countryside?
If so, you could be in with the chance of winning a once in a lifetime prize…

The National Countryside Photography Competition in association with The Prince’s Countryside Fund and The National Countryside Week has just been launched!

Join us in our search for the photograph that best captures the beauty of the Great British Countryside by showing us your favourite photographs taken in one of ten regions.

Send us your photographs that depict the Great British Countryside, and you could win a new Olympus SZ-30MR Digital Camera and accessories worth over £300, along with the chance to have your photograph displayed at St James’s Palace. It’s an opportunity not to be missed!

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This is a photographic competition that is open to everyone and all areas of photography. 
The only specification is that your photograph must capture the Great British Countryside.

You may decide to photograph iconic British landscapes, the vast array of wildlife that resides in Great Britain, quaint rural areas, events orobjects. 

Let your imagination run wild and upload your most spectacular photographs of the Great British Countryside today! 
Entrants may upload a maximum of 3 images.

How the competition will work

The competition will be judged in ten regions across Great Britain, (the regions are listed below).

One winner will be picked from each of the ten regions, and each regional winner will win a new Olympus SZ-30MR Digital Camera.

The regional winners will then be invited to St James’s Palace, London to a Private Garden Party hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales on 6^th July 2011.

Once at the Palace, the regional winners will have their photographs displayed and then judged by leading photographers and Trustees of the Prince’s Countryside Fund.

The Prince of Wales will announce the winning photograph at St James’s Palace.

The judging process

Once the competition has closed, Archant Life Magazine Editors will choose ten winning images from the ten regions

The 10 regional winners will then be invited to St James’ Palace and the overall winner will have their photograph crowned as ‘The Great British Countryside Photograph 2011’

It’s easy and fun to enter so why not upload your 3 photographs by clicking below and help create a picture of what The National Countryside looks like in 2011.
To enter, either login to the website by clicking 'Login' at the bottom of the page, or register to the website by clicking here 

Please note that when uploading your image, due to the large file size, this may take up to 5 minutes. We hope this does not cause too much inconvenience If you are having any problems, please contact askmary@archant.co.uk 

View the ten regions

Competition Closing Date:
12.00 noon, British Summer Time on the Friday 17^th June 2011

Image Specifications:
Only digital JPEGS should be entered, over 3MB in size

Click here to view full terms and conditions of The National Countryside Photography Competition

Click here to view full Archant terms and conditions.