Deadline: September 30, 2020
Entry Fee: £1
Prizes: Valuable Prizes
We are incredibly excited to announce the 2020 SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year Competition
Calling all photographers! Enter your best bird images into this exciting photo competition and help raise vital funds for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
The Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers is pleased to announce that the Bird Photographer of the Year Competition in aid of RSPB is back for its 3rd year running.
Colin Jones The Societies Company Director says, “We are really excited to announce the competition is back for 2020. We are asking for a small donation of £1 per image and 100% of this donation goes straight to the RSPB to help them protect wildlife and the wider countryside you love.”
He continues, “Not only are we looking forward to seeing all your wonderful images, we are also looking forward to helping the RSPB and with your help hopefully we can make a sizeable donation.”
The competition closes on 30 September 2020. So don’t delay and enter your images today.
The 2019 competition raised a whopping £2,850.84 for the RSPB – THANK YOU!
If you love taking pictures of birds then we invite you to enter the SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2020 Competition and help raise vital funds for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
This is your chance to showcase your talent and help raise funds in aid of the RSPB.
Entry Fee
A minimum donation of £1 per image is requested and 100% of the donations will go straight to the RSPB to help them protect wildlife and the wider countryside you love.
Prizes
- Overall Winner
Bird Photographer of the Year 2020 Trophy and Certificate
Permajet Portrait White 285 A3 (25 sheets) (valued at £63.95) – Sponsored by Permajet
Nik Collection 2 by DxO software worth £125
Permajet Snapshut Folio – A3 Landscape, Leather, Cream, 25mm Spine (valued at £57.95) – Sponsored by Permajet
Tasco 10×25 Binoculars (valued at £15)
One year Free Professional Membership to SINWP- which includes: entry to all of our membership only competitions – unrestricted access to our members’ photography forum – access to our members only Facebook group – listing on our directory – qualifications and distinctions through submission of images – the winner will also receive our magazine Professional Imagemaker for 12 months (valued at £120) - 2nd place
2nd Place SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2020 Certificate
6 months Free Professional Membership to SINWP – which includes: entry to all of our membership only competitions – unrestricted access to our members’ photography forum – access to our members only Facebook group – listing on our directory – qualifications and distinctions through submission of images – the winner will also receive our magazine Professional Imagemaker for 6 months (valued at £60) - 3rd place
3rd Place SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2020 Certificate
6 months Free Professional Membership to SINWP – which includes: entry to all of our membership only competitions – unrestricted access to our members’ photography forum – access to our members only Facebook group – listing on our directory – qualifications and distinctions through submission of images – the winner will also receive our magazine Professional Imagemaker for 6 months (valued at £60)
No cash alternatives will be given
Rules
- Competitions closes 30 September 2020
- The work must be that of the entrant
- Images submitted must be no larger than 2000 pixels on the longest side
- All entrants must be able to supply a high resolution image (300dpi)
- No distinguishing marks on the images
- Copyright of the images remains with the photographer – The Societies recognises that the entrant, the author of the photograph, retains complete and full ownership of the copyright in each submission
- Entries can be used for publicity purposes only by The Societies and may be printed in our magazine Professional Imagemaker, also promotional purposes.
- The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Winning and highly commended images may be contacted by national and international media outlets.
