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To download a printable entry form, please click here
To enter the competition online, please click here
To see last year's winners,
please click here
The International Centre for Birds of Prey
Photographer of the Year Competition
2012
The Centre offers wonderful opportunities for exciting photography, of both static and flying subjects.
After its successful introduction in 2010, we are now running an annual competition.
This is open to absolutely anyone as long as you have visited the Centre and taken the photos here in the year of the competition. We invite images in up to five categories.
Portrait
Abstract
Birds in Action
Life at the ICBP
Changing Seasons at the ICBP
Jemima will choose one image for the Special Choice Award, selected from all the entries submitted.
Selected category winners will also be entered for the zoo photography competition run by BIAZA.
Rules:
Entries must have been taken at the ICBP during the year of the competition
Winners may be asked to provide a large, high res digital version of the photo for future reproduction
By entering the competition, you are permitting non-exclusive use of the image for future publication by the ICBP
Entries submitted on CD cannot be returned
All entries will automatically be entered for the Jemima Parry-Jones MBE Special Choice Award
Cost:
£5 to enter any 3 categories or £7.50 to enter all 5 categories, limited to 2 photos per category
Prizes:
The overall winner receives a free place on a Photography Experience Day
The overall runner-up receives a Half Photography Day
Each Category winner will receive a season ticket valid for one year
Category runners-up win two complimentary tickets to the ICBP
How to Enter:
You may EITHER send your images on a CD, along with a paper copy of our entry form, and a cheque made payable to the International Centre for Birds of Prey
OR - upload your entries through our online form and pay by Paypal
OR - email your images to jpj@icbp.org and call us with your details and credit card data
There is plenty of opportunity for all our visitors to get a lovely photo. Sometimes, it is not the expensive kit, but the once-in-a-lifetime happening that wins the day. No-one had a camera when Holly's sunglasses were stolen by her falcon and dropped from 50 ft! Neither did anyone record a still of Sedge emerging from the burrowing owl mound (but you can see the movie on our Film Archives page). The categories give you scope to be creative and imaginative - so get snapping!!!