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designbunny
12-10-2004, 13:13
Are you a budding amateur photographer?
Interested in seeing your work displayed throughout Sheffield?

If so, enter Sheffield Wildlife Trust's exciting new competition and have the chance to win some great prizes!

The categories are:
1. Wild spaces, smiling faces
2. Landscape views, seasonal hues
3. Wildlife creatures, animal features
4. Plants and flowers, at all hours

Everyone who enters will have the opportunity to have their work selected for a visual projection to be shown in the studio space at the Site Gallery, Sheffield's leading contemporary art gallery. Category winners will also see their work displayed inside Supertrams and on tram stops across the city. There are many other great prizes including; free use of facilities at Site Gallery, a delux camera bag donated by Sheffield Photographic Centre and various wildlife & photography books.

So make the most of Sheffield’s fantastic urban green spaces and surrounding countryside, by getting out & about with your camera today!

The competition is open to amateur photographers of all ages. Entry is free to Sheffield Wildlife Trust members and £1 per photo for non-members (suggested donation).

For a free competition entry pack visit www.wildsheffield.com email a.nowell@wildsheffield.com or phone 0114 263 4335. The closing date for entries is 31st January 2005

scottf
12-10-2004, 13:16
I wish my dad hadn't sold his old pentax- used to get some amazing shots with that!!

mr.blaze
12-10-2004, 14:52
Just to add if anyone fancies taking photography up, I have an SLR camera with 4 lenses & case for sale cheap.

roger
12-10-2004, 15:06
pm me the details of camera please i tried to pm you but mailobox full again

designbunny
16-10-2004, 10:14
Does anyone want to enter? Someone out of the 6800 of you must like photography!!

ptigga
16-10-2004, 10:33
Originally posted by designbunny
Does anyone want to enter? Someone out of the 6800 of you must like photography!!

I've emailed and asked for a regfstration pack, and I'm off out on a photography mission this morning.

RPG
16-10-2004, 10:40
does it have to be in printed film? Because ive taken some lovely (IMO) shots of wildlife around my local area of sheffield (mainly plants due to their static nature :lol: ) with my digital camera.

FairyNormal
16-10-2004, 10:43
Yes I was wondering that. A lot of the stuff myself and my son have done are just sored on the PC but not printed off on photographic paper etc.

Is there a facility within the competition to email pics through?

Thanks

ptigga
16-10-2004, 11:26
Originally posted by FetishFairy
Yes I was wondering that. A lot of the stuff myself and my son have done are just sored on the PC but not printed off on photographic paper etc.

Is there a facility within the competition to email pics through?

Thanks

Just checked the post and I've got my entry pack this morning.

In the rules it states that:

(iv) Images must be in colour and may be submitted as prints (no smaller than 7" * 5") OR digital photos on a CD as JPEGs resolution min. 200dpi. (Images submitted electronically must be accompanied by a colour print of the photograph).


So I guess that as long as the resolution is good enough (7x5 in. at 200dpi) then I should be able to get a print of my digital images at Jessops and submit them along with the jpegs.

designbunny
18-10-2004, 11:23
Yes that's right - Digital prints are accepted, but we need a colour printout of what the photo is - it doesn't have to be on photo paper, it can be on plain white. Its more of a reference thing really - in case we get hundreds of images on CD.

designbunny
18-10-2004, 11:26
Is there a facility within the competition to email pics through?

Unfortuantely we can't accept emailed photos as our server would die! So put them on CD and post them to us instead.

Happy photographing!

FairyNormal
18-10-2004, 12:40
Originally posted by designbunny
Unfortuantely we can't accept emailed photos as our server would die! So put them on CD and post them to us instead.

Happy photographing!

Can't do that as we don't have a re-writer.

Never mind :-(

tas1
18-10-2004, 14:39
I've also sent off for a pack - it's somewhere in the mess that was our lounge (currently all piled into dining room, as waiting for carpet fitter to come!).

Do pictures from Derbyshire count ? Have a few I've taken when walking out monsal way that I'd thought about submitting.

Phanerothyme
18-10-2004, 14:56
registered for it

Just working out which one of several hundred landscape shots to pick now...

theflyingfish
18-10-2004, 15:00
Originally posted by FetishFairy
Can't do that as we don't have a re-writer.

Never mind :-(

How do you back up photos? Unless you have a spare Hard drive, I would get a CDRW quickly!!

FairyNormal
18-10-2004, 16:39
Originally posted by theflyingfish
How do you back up photos? Unless you have a spare Hard drive, I would get a CDRW quickly!!

Are you offering to buy me one then? lol!

Can't afford one on my part time wage with me and 2 kids to feed lol!!

designbunny
18-10-2004, 17:58
Perhaps Geoff would be kind enough to set up something through the forum? A space where people could upload their photos and we could download them at the Trust.

How about it Geoff? Pretty please...

Phanerothyme
18-10-2004, 18:17
Originally posted by FetishFairy
Are you offering to buy me one then? lol!

Can't afford one on my part time wage with me and 2 kids to feed lol!!
No, but, you can have the one sitting behind me - its a sony cdrw - pretty standard.

you need to be able to collect though.

pm me ff, if you want it, you sound like you need it.

Internetowl
18-10-2004, 20:45
is open to kids - my nine year old has a rather catching eye for snaps of curious things - freaks me outsometimes with her shots!

designbunny
19-10-2004, 12:27
is open to kids - my nine year old has a rather catching eye for snaps of curious things - freaks me out sometimes with her shots!

Yes, Children are very welcome to enter - its open to amateur photographers of all ages.

karl101
20-10-2004, 16:12
I was thinking of entering my picture of a Bee.

http://www.g7smy.myby.co.uk/?page=photos&img=2

But the printer has broken.

Ho Hum.

K.

ptigga
20-10-2004, 22:10
Originally posted by karl101
I was thinking of entering my picture of a Bee.

http://www.g7smy.myby.co.uk/?page=photos&img=2

But the printer has broken.

Ho Hum.

K.

Nice photo!

Stick it on a cd or a flash card and take it to Jessops. They'll print it for you.

designbunny
15-11-2004, 13:00
Geoff has been kind enough to help us promote our photographic competition... remember we were wanting a way of submitting photos on this site... well, now you can!

Visit: http://photos.sheffieldforum.co.uk/

ptigga
15-11-2004, 13:44
Originally posted by designbunny
Geoff has been kind enough to help us promote our photographic competition... remember we were wanting a way of submitting photos on this site... well, now you can!

Visit: http://photos.sheffieldforum.co.uk/

Excellent! Smashing job.

I still haven't managed to get out much in Sheffield or South Yorkshire with the camera. These short days and long nights are annoying. I shall hopefully get something submitted before the closing date. I would love the chance to see one of my pictures on all of tram stops.

designbunny
15-11-2004, 14:33
Thats great ptigga, i hope you do enter. One of the categories is about people & the outdoors, so get shots of families walking in the local park, playing football or looking at wildlife.

Geoff
15-11-2004, 14:34
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