Subscribe to our newsletter None saved

South West Coast Path Photo Competition

Once again the South West Coast Path Team is inviting photographers and walking enthusiasts to enter their best pictures of the Coast Path in our annual photo competition. The aim is to reflect the wonderful landscapes and wildlife found around our coastline, which makes this one of the world's greatest walks.

This year's winning photographs will feature in the 2014 South West Coast Path calendar.  The 2013 calendar featuring last year's winners will be on sale from the SW Coast Path Association webshop and lots of local shops (including larger branches of WH Smiths) from early summer 2012.

Each copy sold helps the South West Coast Path Association raise money to make the path even better. Last year’s calendar raised over £1500 which they used to help fund the re-opening of the Coast Path near Charlestown following a cliff fall.

The prizes:


1st prize: Thanks to the generosity of Cornish Cottage Holidays, the photographer of the picture chosen for the cover of the 2014 calendar will win a £700 voucher towards a stay in any of their stunning holiday homes.  You can find out more about these by clicking on their advert.  They will also receive the collection of runner-up prizes.

 

 

Runner-up prizes: The photographers whose pictures are chosen for the other 11 months of the 2014 calendar will win:Click to buy from Amazon

  • A copy of Adam Burton's 'South West Coast Path' photography book by Francis Lincoln.  A previous entrant in the competition, Adam has won various photography prizes including the landscape category in the annual photographic awards of Wanderlust Magazine and his work has appeared on over 200 magazine covers. He has kindly offered to help judge this year's competition.
  • Annual membership of the SW Coast Path Association
  • Your choice from the wide range of award-winning guidebooks for walking, trekking, climbing and mountaineering, cycle touring and hill and mountain skills, produced by Cicerone press.
  • A copy of the 2014 calendar featuring their photo.

    •  

    It's easy to enter, just follow the steps below.

    Step 1: Upload your photo
    Step 2: Photo details

    Please include the place name of where it was taken from and / or it is looking at

    What makes this spot or photo special to you?

    Step 3: Location:
    So that people can easily find out where the winning photos are taken from, and go and see the view for themselves, please mark the photo's location on the map as accurately as you can. This is easy to do: just drag the map until the crosshair is above the spot where you took the photo. You can zoom in on the map using your mouse wheel or clicking on the + symbol
    Step 4: Your details:
    We value your privacy and so your contact details will not be passed onto third parties, without us first asking your permission.

    This will be displayed alongside the photos

    This will only be used if we are unable to contact you by email

    Step 4: Competition rules
    • You give your permission for the South West Coast Path Team and the competition sponsors to publish your photo on our websites and Flickr galleries (which maybe imbedded onto 3rd party websites) and to use it without charge to promote the competition and the South West Coast Path in publicity material such as displays, leaflets, magazines, newspaper articles and other publications (produced by third parties) and a South West Coast Path Calendar. If your photo is used in this way you will be credited as the photographer.
    • In partnership with Salmon we will produce a calendar for 2014 in which 12 photos from the competition will be selected to be used and in return each photographer will receive a portfolio of prizes.
    • You can enter as many photos as you want.
    • All photographs must be your own work, and you must legally hold the copyright to them (so no copying photos out of magazines, postcards or nicking them from websites!).
    • We make no claims on your copyright.
    • The photos must be taken on, or near to the South West Coast Path.
    • To ensure that the photos will reproduce well in the calendar, a minimum resolution of 1650 x 2100 pixels is required – although higher is better. If your camera has a resolution of at least 3 megapixels (Mp), providing the resolution settings are high / best quality, the photos should be fine.
    • You can make minor digital enhancements to improve your photo whilst maintaining the natural composition of the scene itself, but no black and white or sepia images please.
    • At our discretion, all suitable entries received will be displayed on the website and our Flickr gallery, along with their caption, and the photographer’s name.
    • If the people in your photo are recognisable, you must have obtained their permission for the pictures to be entered into the competition and used for promotional purposes.
    • All entries must be received by midnight on the 31st December 2012.
    • Judges decisions are final.

     

    Latest News

    • Coast Path Motographer of the Year 2013 competition

      The South West Coast Path team is encouraging budding mobile phone photographers of all ages to capture a moment in time on the Coast Path as part of its Coast Path Motographer of the Year 2013 competition.

    • New record set for completing the Coast Path!

      A new record has been set for the fastest completion of the South West Coast Path! Contours Walking Holidays' Managing Director, Mark Townsend and fellow runner, Julie Gardener, completed the full South West Coast Path in a record time of 14 days, 14 hours and 44 minutes.

       

    • Great South West Walk exceeds half a million!

      The South West Coast Path Association’s Great South West Walk came to a grand finale on Tuesday 7th May, raising over £500,000 for 90 improvement projects to the entire South West Coast Path covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

    • Latest news on path diversions

      Following numerous cliff falls over the past few months, many sections of the Coast Path have been diverted. Click for details of route changes.

    • Cliff fall near Lulworth Cove

      Following the landslide at St. Oswald’s Bay between Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door on the morning of 30 April 2013, diversionary routes have been put in place by Dorset County Council and the Lulworth Estate, allowing the South West Coast Path to remain fully open and safe for visitors to this area. 

    • New slate waymarkers guide the way for Cornish walkers

      The sand dunes of west Cornwall attract thousands of local walkers and tourists every year who will now benefit from new slate waymarkers to guide the way along the South West Coast Path.

    • Five top family walks for summer

      Why not get out and about this summer and combine a family walk on the South West Coast Path with a host of other old-fashioned childhood pleasures, from crabbing in rockpools and exploring hidden coves, to following in the footsteps of giants.

    • Great South West Walk kicks off

      The Great South West Walk is underway - but still time to join up and help make the Coast Path even better.

    • Jurassic Coast Gateway nearing completion

      Exmouth is taking pride of place at the Western end of the Jurassic Coast as finishing touches are applied at the Jurassic Coast Gateway.

      The project will be completed in time for the Easter holidays, and will highlight its status as the oldest part of the World Heritage Site.

    • South West Coast Path To Receive £250,000

      The South West Coast Path Association is delighted to announce that it has secured £250,000 in funding for improvement projects around the entire South West Coast Path, before their fundraising event has even taken place.

    Tweets

    • Enter our great new mobile phone competition to be in with a chance of winning an ipad mini http://t.co/AiQAX9ivqS #MOTY2013
    • New Coast Path record set and all in aid of the Great South West Walk! #Love2Walk http://t.co/RJ5H5RjKWI
    • @forgottenpaths Crikey! You know what they say: quality not quantity!
    • @forgottenpaths No, as many as you like! #MOTY2013
    • @viperjimh Hope you're going to enter! #MOTY2013
    • @laini Beautiful stretch - you got there in the end!
    • @sunleypants fantastic - love the seals pic. Perhaps you might like to enter our competition as you go http://t.co/MXnnW7yMoW
    • @endtoendtrail Good luck - think the forecast is cheering up for next week!

    Facebook

    • Sometimes you just get lucky when walking along the Coast Path! http://www.flickr.com/photos/worthingwanderer/8745964259/
    • #MOTY2013 Bedruthan at sunset - iphone4
    • Rusey Cliff, near Crackington and the start of a hard slog if you're walking north!
    • If you guys have any influence any chance of getting the council to put some "danger, beware walkers" or something on the approach lanes from Hope Cove and from South Milton Beach as the coast path is closed. Cars can just about get around if you tuck in to the hedge but when a oil tanker came along, your stumped!!
    • The team at Contours Walking Holidays are delighted to announce that Managing Director, Mark Townsend and fellow runner, Julie Gardener, have completed the full South West Coast Path in a record time of 14 days, 14 hours and 44 minutes. We believe that this is the fastest that the trail has ever been completed! All money raised from the event will be donated to the South West Coast Path Association in support of the Great South West Walk. For more information, visit:http://www.contours.co.uk/general/cfc-contours-south-west-run.php or to make a donation, visit: http://www.justgiving.com/ContoursWalkingHolidays-SouthWestRun
    • #MOTY2013