Farmers Weekly photo competition 2018 – win £250 cash prize

The 2018 Farmers Weekly annual photography competition is now open for entries.

With eight farming and rural life categories to enter your wonderful photos into this year, this competition is your big chance to share and celebrate the best of British farming.

This competition is open to all amateur photographers and the categories cover a broad range of  topics. You can enter as many snaps into any of the categories as you like, so get uploading.

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We’ve got a tasty £250 cash prize to give away to the overall winner of this year’s competition.

The categories are: 

• Machinery
• Wildlife
• Livestock
• Landscapes
• People
• Pets
• Black and white
• Young photographer (open to anyone aged 16 or under on the closing date)

To help the Farmers Weekly team select a winner, runner-up and highly commended entry from each category, last year’s winner of winners Vicky Drysdale will be our guest judge.

As ever, we will be showing off the winning photos along with a runner up and highly commended from each category in Farmers Weekly’s bumper Christmas issue on 21 December.

How to enter

Entering is incredibly quick and easy – you just need to upload your best pictures to one or more of the relevant online galleries.

You can enter some favourite photos you have already taken and are especially proud of, or you can always get out in the beautiful British countryside to take snaps specifically with this competition in mind.

When uploading your images, please don’t forget to tell us when and where your photo was taken, along any other details you would like to include.

The photo’s significance, some context or short and sweet explanation of why you think it’s a cracking snap will help the judges when they are shortlisting your entries.

The closing date is Friday, 23 November 2018. Find out more details and enter the competition.

Get inspired

We’ve picked out some of our absolute favourite entries from last year’s photo competition to serve as some inspiration before you get out their with your cameras. Good luck.

Mark Dall took first prize in the machinery category with this stunning scene of ploughing at Mawcarse Farm, on the edge of Milnathortin, in Kinross, Scotland on a beautifully bright and cold February afternoon.

Our 2017 winner of winners Vicky Drysdale took is colour shot while moving her sheep with her partner in the stunning Lake District.

Northamptonshire farmer Linda Chapman won the 2017 black and white photo category with this brilliant shot taken at the British Percheron Annual Horse Show.

Frances Browne was highly commended for her entry of six deer lined in a row, peaking over the brow of a hill.

Amy Bateman bagged runner-up in the 2017 people category with this fun-filled action shot of her daughter Rosie jumping into a puddle on the farm.