Photographic Competition

The Ramsbottom Heritage Society used to organise an Annual Photographic Competition. The event ran for 34 years and nearly  6000 photos have been retained by the Society for the archives. All the photos can be viewed on the photographic database

There is no longer a competition, but photos are still being accepted for our archives, as the original idea for the competition was to develop an archive of photographs taken in the year

The photographs must have been taken in the Ramsbottom area. Please indicate when the photograph was taken. See below for full details.

Only digital entries can be accepted. This can either be emailed to info@ramsbottomheritage.org.uk  or handed in on a CD/DVD or memory stick ( contact john for details).

 

Submissions from 2021 onwards now go into a General category and are recorded on the Photographic database as HPC-yyGE-nnn , where yy is the year that the photo was taken, and nnn is the sequence number.

There used to be 4 categories judged, and these were recorded as HPC-yyBU-nnn, HPC-yyEV-nnn, HPC-yyTC-nnn, and HPC-ttTH-nnn

BUILDINGS

Exterior and interior views, both of private and public buildings, especially ones which are going to change their function

EVENTS & DAILY LIFE

V.I.P. visits, Christmas Scenes, Railway specials, Sports Events, Church events,
special events in Nuttall Park, traffic, shops, markets, people at work and play, e.t.c.

TOWN & COUNTRY LANDSCAPES

Landscapes, street views, railway scenes, e.t.c.

THEMES   

Three to five photographs on the same theme, i.e. a building being erected or demolished, an event, a landscape taken at different times of the year or from different views, e.t.c.

 

1    All entries must be supplied in a digital format at least 800 by 600 pixels, the higher the quality the better

2      Photographs can be supplied on CD/ memory card, e.t.c. or emailed to      info @ramsbottomheritage.org.uk

      memory cards will be returned.

3    Photographs may be in colour or black and white, but must have been taken between January 1st 2022 and 31st December 2022 within the towns mentioned above.  

4    The Entrant must own copyright of any photograph entered, but entry to the competition gives the Ramsbottom Heritage Society permission to use the image in any format (website, print, e.t.c.)

5    The photographs will be retained in the photographic database on a public website for possible copying and display at any time.

6    There is no limit to the number of entries. At the organiser’s discretion, the photographs will be displayed on the photographic database

7    The Name and Address of the Entrant, telephone number, the approximate date the photograph was taken, the category entered, and a brief description of the photograph should be submitted either through the website or attached as a document with the photographs if supplied via CD/memory card

8    Submission of the photographs via the website or manually implies agreement with the rules