Calling all ‘budding’ garden photographers. Are you the next Garden Photographer of The Year? With thousands of pounds worth of cash and prizes up for grabs, this is a unique opportunity for entrants to have their photographs exhibited for the four summer months of 2008, alongside some of the world’s most talented photographers in the gardening and landscape world. Several hundred thousand visitors will see the top one hundred pictures at a purpose-built outdoor exhibition at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
We are now calling for entries in the following categories:
My Garden
Garden Views
Plant Portrait
Life in the Garden, and
Trees
Amateur and professional photographers are encouraged to enter single images or themed portfolios and there will be prizes to suit both types of entry. There will be a new special award for Young Garden Photographer of The Year supported by Chris Collins, the BBC Blue Peter Gardener. Entries for this category are welcomed from young photographers under the age of 16 and are free.
A panel of high-profile industry and art professionals will judge the competition and the winning images will be displayed from May to September 2008.
Closing date for submissions is 31st January 2008.
For more details on “How to Enter”, please visit www.gpoty.org
Previous competition judge Chris Beardshaw - television presenter and garden designer, says: “Our plants and gardens are delightfully dynamic and effervescent - subtly and constantly morphing. So much can be missed at the blink of an eye but, thankfully, it is precisely that precious moment that the camera captures for eternity.”
About the venue:
Visitors to Kew Gardens will be inspired by all that this World Heritage Site and historic garden landscape has to offer, from the iconic glasshouses and Pagoda to the exceptional botanical collection, majestic vistas and hidden corners that provide a home to a wealth of wildlife. Kew is a wonderful place to enjoy summer days but is just as beguiling at other times of year, from the mists and golden colours of autumn through crisp winter days to the riot of spring bulbs and blossom. It’s a photographer’s paradise!
