Photography 
Competition 2024

The Friends of Foots Cray Meadows (FFCM) committee invites you to take part in our inaugural Photography Competition 2024. With just a camera or your mobile phone, you have the exciting opportunity to win a £50 Amazon voucher plus a mounted copy of your winning picture and a year’s free FFCM membership.

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The subject is one close to all our hearts – your photo can relate to any aspect of the wonderful public open space that is the Foots Cray Meadows, its beauty, its landscape and its wildlife.

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Flex your photography skills and submit your entries to ffcm06@gmail.com, with one entry per email and a maximum five entries per person.

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The competition is open only to FFCM members with a closing date of June 1st, 2024. If you're not a member and would like to take part, membership is just £5 per year per household.

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The winner, to be judged by a select panel, will be announced at the organisation’s AGM this summer.

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We look forward to seeing your entries!

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Terms and Conditions

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1. The Photography competition will be open to FFCM members only.

2. Photographs must be submitted by emailing them to the ffcm06@gmail.com email address.

3. The email subject title must clearly state ‘Entry for FFCM Photographic Competition 2024’ with your FFCM Membership number

4. The photograph must relate to an aspect of Foots Cray Meadows or life on it. It must not contain an image of a recognisable person, child, pet, brand, or logo.

5. Each competitor may submit up to a maximum of five photographs, but each one must be submitted via a separate email entry.

6. The email submission must include the following:

   1. ​Name of competitor

   2. Title of the Photograph

   3. Contact details, email address & mobile number

   4. FFCM Membership number

   5. Age of competitor if under 18 - otherwise specify Adult.

      1. Photographs submitted by those under the age of 18 on 1st June 2024, must be submitted by their parent/guardian.

   6. If there are sufficient entries, the entries from those under 18 years of age will be judged in a separate category.

7. The closing time and date for receipt of entries is 12pm, midnight (London time) Saturday 1st June 2024. Entries received after that time or which, in the opinion of the FFCM Photographic Competition Judges, do not comply with the terms and conditions will be rejected.

8. Members of the FFCM committee are not eligible to compete.

9. The winning photograph will be chosen by the FFCM Photography Competition Judging Panel, formed from members and committee members of FFCM and Richard Winston (an accomplished wildlife Photographer). Their decision will be final.

10. Photographs will be judged in relation to the following criteria:

    1. ​ Composition, creativity, originality and the visual attraction of an image which, in and of itself, clearly relates to some distinctive aspect of Foots Cray Meadows.

11. The winning photographer (Adult & under 18 categories, should number of entries permit) will receive a year’s free membership of Friends of Foots Cray Meadows, a framed and mounted copy of their winning photograph and a £50 Amazon Voucher.

12. The results will be announced at the FFCM AGM in Summer 2024 (date TBC).

13. Copyright in each photograph submitted must be vested exclusively in the competitor submitting it. The copyright will remain vested in that competitor and will not pass to FFCM.

14. The photographs submitted by competitors will be stored electronically by the FFCM Photography Competition Judging Panel. Shortlisted and winning photographs will be displayed on the www.footscraymeadows.org website, press releases and newsletter, so by submitting a photograph each competitor consents to this.