We’ve been delighted to receive more entries to a new photography competition capturing Bramley and Stanningley.
WLD is collaborating with Bramley Community Arts Festival to support a photography competition with the theme, In My Backyard.
The competition encourages you to send cool and interesting photographs of Bramley & Stanningley.
21-year-old Emily Almond has sent us three entries, one for each of the categories.
This is her photo for ‘I Know Where That Is’:
Urban Environment:
And Nature:
How to enter
There are two age groups: 16 and under, and 16+
There are three categories:
- Our Urban Environment
- Nature & Wildlife
- I know Where That Is!
You can look for that perfect subject over the next two weeks, or submit a photo taken in the last 12 months.
You can use a camera or a mobile phone, but entries are limited to one photo in each category, so take time to choose your best image.
Please note that, for this year’s competition, images may be cropped, but not otherwise edited. We’re looking for cool and interesting subjects, angles and composition, rather than use of filters, blurring, etc. As you can see from the example photos for each category, you can get satisfying results with patience, steady hands and luck!
Email images to news@westleedsdispatch.com before 3pm on Sunday, May 10, stating which category your photograph is for, with a title if you wish, your name and email address. If you are under 18, please give your age and the email address of a parent or guardian.
Our Urban Environment category
- For Our Urban Environment, the focus is on the built environment. Think about buildings you pass and roads you use every day, and how they look in different light or weather, at different times and seasons. Try to capture their character, or how you feel about them, in one photo. Or aim to tell a story of change in progress, e.g. regeneration or road use; or by contrasting old and new building styles and uses, in one image. This is the essence of photojournalism: the arresting image at the top of the article that draws in the reader.
Please respect people’s privacy. If an anonymous hooded dogwalker or a soaked runner figures in the distance, or on the edge of, your photograph of a rain-washed street, don’t worry. They are incidental. On the other hand, a candid shot of customers at a new pavement café, even if they all have their backs to the camera, would be discarded without notice because this is a local competition and they could be identified. Any photograph of identifiable minors will be discarded without notice. If in doubt, choose another image.
Nature & Wildlife
- For Nature & Wildlife, the sky’s the limit! From a walk in the wood to woodlice in your compost; tadpoles in your pond to fungus on a tree stump; a starry sky to dew-tipped ferns to a spiderweb on the washing line to a field full of molehills!
Please note – nesting birds are extremely wary, and an intrusive photographer could panic them into abandoning their eggs. To stay safe and avoid frightening animals or birds, please read the Wildlife Trusts’ guidelines before heading for your local woods or nature reserve.
I Know Where That Is!
- I Know Where That Is! is possibly the easiest challenge to understand, and the trickiest to manage: to photograph something in your neighbourhood that is so distinctive, but also so familiar, that people barely notice it anymore. And to photograph it in such a way that anyone who looks at your photo starts snapping their fingers, bouncing on their feet or tapping their heads – the things people do when they’re desperately trying to place a memory – until they burst out, “I know where that is!” A collapsed shed covered in ivy or honeysuckle. Chimney pots that remind you of the Mandalorian. An armchair and upturned crate next to a row of climbing beans at the allotments.
Get in close, but not too close. Find the right angle for quirky but identifiable if they look.Simple, yes? Enjoy!
The winning photographs
There will be one winner for each category and age group, six in total. The six winning images will be framed, and displayed on the Friends of Photography stall at the Open Afternoon at Trinity Church, from 2pm to 3.45pm on May 16, when they will be presented to the winning photographers by judges Paul Abraham and Kelvin Wakefield. They will also be featured in the June print edition of West Leeds Dispatch.
Visitors to the open afternoon will be able to vote for their favourite out of the six winning images, for a People’s Choice, to be announced straight after the main presentation.
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