BIG Announcement for our BIG Birthday.
For the first time CJS is running a photography competition!
That's right, get snapping, riffle through the archives, scan through
the camera app on your phone. Do you have a great picture? We're not
necessarily looking for the most perfect, most technically accurate image
(although nice clear pictures are usually better than fuzzy ones!) but those
that reflect our glorious countryside and all that goes with working in the
management of landscapes, with wildlife, in education everything that is part
and parcel of daily life. We want to see the best (smiling visitors on
sunny days), the worst (sodden waterproofs, overflowing wellies and wall still
only half built), the wonderful (that elusive moment as an otter slips into the
water), the incredible (dandelion seeds floating in a clear blue sky) and the
humourous (the perfectly placed background poledriver) that capture life
working in the countryside.
Entries
You can submit any image at any time but we will be suggesting themes
for each month ranging from the obvious British Countryside to the more open to
interpretation "Green". You can see the full list of suggested
subjects here. Simply email your photo (jpegs please) to photo@countryside-jobs.com along with your name and any information you want to include about your
photo: what it shows, where it was taken and a caption for a funny one would be
welcome too. (Full rules are here - please read them before sending your
photos, we'll assume you have, https://www.countryside-jobs.com/Photo/rules.htm.)
Showcase
We'll showcase your photos through our new Instagram account
(instagram.com/countrysidejobs) and share our pick across our social media so
make sure you include your social media handles and we'll tag you in.
Meaning that it's also a great way to publicise your site or project.
Prizes
Not only will your photos be seen by over 100,000 CJS readers but we
have prizes too! The CJS Team will choose one winner each month who will
receive a prize and at the end of the competition will select one image* as an
overall winner to receive a prize money can't buy - an invitation to the grand
gala opening of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2020. In July
next year we will post a selection of photos online for you, our readers, to
pick a winner who will win a year's subscription to BBC Wildlife magazine.
CJS want to thank all the wonderful organisations who are supporting our
competition by providing prizes, we'll introduce them and tell you more throughout
the year.
We're launching the competition with an open category - send us any
photo that you think is relevant to CJS, your fellow readers and other
professionals working across the countryside, conservation, ecology, wildlife,
environmental education, arboriculture sectors.
This month the prize is a year's subscription to CJS.
Good luck - and get
snapping!
*we're hoping this is going to be a really difficult task!