GPoTY - final call for entries

Final call for entries: Any ‘budding’ garden photographers, whether professional or amateur, have just two weeks left to enter the Garden Photographer of The Year ’08 competition.

With thousands of pounds worth of cash and prizes up for grabs, this is a unique opportunity for entrants to have their photographs exhibited for the four summer months of 2008, alongside some of the world’s most talented photographers in the gardening and landscape world. Several hundred thousand visitors will see the top one hundred pictures at a purpose-built outdoor exhibition at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.

Entries are invited in the categories of “My Garden”, “Garden Views”, “Plant portraits”, “Life in the Garden”, “Trees”.

Amateur and professional photographers are encouraged to enter single images or themed portfolios and there will be prizes to suit both types of entry. There will be a new special award for Young Garden Photographer of The Year supported by Chris Collins, the BBC Blue Peter Gardener. Entries for this category are welcomed from young photographers under the age of 16 and are free.

A panel of high-profile industry and art professionals will judge the competition and the winning images will be displayed from May to September 2008.

For more details on “How to Enter”, please visit www.gpoty.org

• The closing date for submissions is 31st January.

• You can enter online at www.gpoty.org

• Under 16s can enter Young Garden Photographer of the Year and Kew Gardens free of charge.

• Further information on the Garden Photographers’ Association, please visit www.gpauk.org