Launching the most prestigious photographic competition this side of the Carillon Tower (and the other side too, for that matter!)
In the early days of Soar Valley Life magazine we chose photos for our front cover from one’s we had taken ourselves. We’d match the dominant colour of the photo and create a header in that same colour. This was fine until about month eight when we were running out of photos. By luck, we met up with a brilliant young lady called Rebecca Soanes. Her Dad had been a keen photographer and had left her all his photo equipment in his will. Her photos were full on life in all its glory. The only problem here was that Rebecca lived in Derbyshire, and we really wanted local scenes and subjects. Then another chance meeting with a truly gifted, award winning landscape photographer called Bill Allsopp. If you look on his website you will be amazed at the breathtaking images in his portfolio. Bill did us proud for about a year, providing us with some outstanding photographs in and around our beautiful countryside. Bill retired from his main job as an Accountant and became a professional landscape photographer. He now has a range of images available for sale in galleries up and down the country – some of them sell for hundreds of pounds. In June one of his photos was on the front page of the National BBC magazine Countryfile.
We now feel the time is right to launch our very own photo competition open to all amateur photographers living and/or working in our area. The types of photos we would like to see are many and varied – seasonal, local, colourful, lively, interesting and so on. To give you a clue, here’s the subjects we’ve chosen before:
15 with flora, 3 swans, 2 robins, 3 Christmas scenes, 2 snow scenes, 1 jolly fisherman, 1 bee, 1 butterfly, 1 ladybird, 1 Vulcan bomber, 2 steam trains, 2 poppies, 1 church, 1 country show, 1 brewery, 1 Wanlip Whopper, 2 nursery schools, 2 sunsets, 3 iconic buildings, 5 landscapes, two fine art reproductions, and 1 awards night. (Uncle Tom Cobley was there, so we’re told!)
If you’d like to know more about our photo competition send an email to steve@soarvalleylife.co.uk.
We’ll see you on our front page soon!
Steve & Mary Johns
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