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Farmers Weekly Photo Competition 2011

From monster combines to the tiniest wildlife, the countryside is stunningly photogenic. Here's how to get involved in the best photo competition in farming, win a superb prize and improve your own photographic skills in the process.

Every year the entries to FW's Photography Competition provide a fanstastic pictoral record of farming and the countryside in all its many guises.

And the 2011 competiton, energised by E.ON, will be bigger and better than ever before, offering a total £700 for the overall "winner of winners".

Anyone can enter as long as you're not a professional photographer and, with seven categories, there really is something for everyone.

Submitting pictures is a great chance to showcase your skills behind the camera and a chance to see your work published on our website and magazine.

* Arable scenes
* Livestock scenes
* Natural world and landscapes
* Pets
* People
* Humour
* Young snapper (open to anyone who’s 16 or under on the closing date)

How to enter

Upload them to this gallery www.fwi.co.uk/photocomp2011entries

This is quick and easy to do and there are instructions there as to how to do it. The advantage of uploading them to the gallery is that it’s a great way to showcase your pictures – whereas ones that we’re emailed will only appear on the web and in the magazine if they make our “favourites” list.

Who can enter?

Anyone can enter as long as you’re not a professional photographer. Any one person can enter a maximum of six images. In the Young Snapper category, the entrant has to be 16 or under on the closing date. Farmers Weekly may publish the pictures more than once. The closing date is 18 November, 2011.

Latest entries

  • little baby mouse
  • chatting in the feild
  • evening
  • frogs on the dung heap
  • snow
  • in the garden
  • 2009 - 2010 073.JPG
  • rd20111 001.JPG
  • woodlands sep 2010 397.JPG
  • meghan 22 08 2011 111.JPG
  • Macro World
  • MF 7485 rolling
  • the seven (eight) dwarves
  • 000_0057.JPG
  • MF 7485 rolling
  • MF 5470 Rolling
  • Muck Spreading
  • Too Heavy
  • young snapper
  • Mr Fluff

Email them

You can email your shots to us at fwphotocomp@rbi.co.uk
If you would like to enter different pictures in more than one category, you should send a separate email for each category containing the appropriate picture(s).


Please write your surname and the category the attached picture(s) is being entered for in the subject line of every email you send.
Then, in the body of the email, be sure to include your full name, your address and a daytime phone number.
Digital pictures need to be a reasonable size – so each one should be bigger than 200kB but no one picture should be bigger than 3MB.

The prizes

Each of the seven category winners will get £100 cash, plus there will be a faulous new Nikon D90 camera worth around £700 for the "winner of winners". 

This hugely respected camera blends technology from Nikon’s flagship digital SLRs with an array of sophisticated functions to help you achieve great results.

It’s popular with serious amateurs and professionals alike, offering outstanding image quality across a wide light sensitivity range, with its 12.3 megapixel DX-format CMOS image sensor and EXPEED image processing system.

It also allows you to shoot movies of exceptional quality using the innovative D-Movie function.

Nikon describe it as “designed to fuel your passion for photography” and it’s normally priced at between £650 and £700.

See some of the entrants for last year's competition. or check out last year's winners here.