Get snapping for Hospice calendar competition

2005 Rochdale Calendar cover, photographed by Thomas Burns

The race is on for local amateur photographers to enter their pictures for the 2010 Springhill Hospice Rochdale Calendar.
The calendar will include thirteen colour photographs of local scenes – the front cover and one for each month.

Last year, nearly 260 photographs were submitted for the 2009 calendar.

The Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre is sponsoring the calendar and all entries received will be displayed on the Gallery Level of the centre in May to give the general public the chance to vote for their favourite photograph. The photo with the most votes will then be used as the front cover picture on the calendar.

The monthly pictures will be decided by a panel of judges once the cover has been chosen.

Ian Jenkins, Fundraising Manager for Springhill Hospice, said: “When the judges look at choosing the photos for inside the calendar they are particularly looking for pictures that show the changing of the seasons or those that capture some sort of local activity and, of course, scenes that represent the whole borough – Middleton to Littleborough, Heywood to Whitworth.”

The entry fee for the competition is £3.00 for up to four prints with an extra 50p for each additional print submitted. 

Cheques and postal orders should be made payable to ‘Springhill Hospice’ and sent to the address on the entry form to arrive before the closing date, Friday 17 April.

Photographic entries must measure 150mm wide x 105mm deep (landscape), in order to fit in with the calendar’s format.

A completed entry form should be attached with each set of pictures, complete with the scene, location, name and address of the entrant identified on the reverse of each print.

Copyright remains with the photographer, but pictures submitted cannot be returned.

Click on the download below for an entry form.

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