Competitions

Over the year I have entered a few competitions, mainly from Outdoor Photography which is a magazine I have a monthly subscription to. They have regular competitions for landscape and wildlife photography. I have also entered the Source Magazine Graduate Photography competition which we were told about in class and we were all encouraged to take part in. For the Source competition I submitted several of my Dartmoor images as I felt that they would be better understood than my abstracts. I used landscapes and wildlife photographs that I had taken and that I considered my better images. I have not had the results of the competition yet but I am hoping for some recognition.

For any of the Outdoor Photography Magazine competitions that I have entered I could only use my Dartmoor images as they are the only ones suitable for the theme of the competitions, I had to look at the requirements for the competition and then look through my images and see if any fit the brief. I then had to select the most appropriate one and write a small paragraph describing the shoot of the chosen image. I haven't won any competition yet but as the Outdoor Photography ones are free I can keep entering them.

After a conversation that I had with a member of staff at the National History Museum I have been thinking about entering competitions there as they said that my work is as good as some of the work that they have on display. This conversation has inspired me to look at bigger competitions that I could enter when I have a larger body of work and when I have more confidence in my work.