National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition – UK and Ireland

This competition is organised by APL Media Limited, publishers of National Geographic Traveller (UK).

Categories

• Food & travel
  • This category celebrates photography that tells a story from any stage of the culinary journey from field to fork. Perhaps you’ll capture scenes of fishing or a harvest, chefs busy at work at a street-food stall or vendors selling their produce at a local market.
• People
  • Travel portraiture should convey the power and spirit of human connection within a destination. It requires an interesting subject, artfully framed within their environment to reveal something of their unique story.
• Urban environments
  • Your composition should capture the personality of a city or town. You might, for example, choose to show how people live in their urban space, traffic moving past striking architecture or bold street signs and shopfronts.
• Landscape
  • This category should offer unusual perspectives on the natural world. They’re looking for plenty of creativity in shots that might, say, show an expanse of landscape or the graphic patterns of an environment revealed from a drone.
• Wildlife
  • Observing animals in their natural habitat is one of the greatest wonders of travel — capturing them on camera is one of its biggest challenges. This category calls for arresting shots of any type of creature, big and small.
• Portfolio
  • Whether it covers a road trip through Vietnam or an Elvis festival in Nashville, your portfolio of up to 10 images should create a multi-faceted and cohesive story of a single destination.

Prize Information

• There will be one overall winner, and 5 category winners.
• Winner’s images will be published in National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine.
• There’s no cash prize; no alternative will be offered.
• The promoter shall not be liable in any way for any failure, liability or breach by any third party in connection with this competition accepts no responsibility for any loss, property damage or personal injury suffered by the winner relating to this competition, except in the case of death or personal injury caused by the promoter’s negligence or fraudulent misrepresentation and, so far as permitted by law, the promoter and its associated companies and agents exclude responsibility and all liabilities arising for reasons beyond its control, including any act or default of any third-party supplier.

Eligibility Criteria

• Entrants must reside in the UK or Ireland and be aged 18 or over.
• Only online entries will be accepted.
• Entrants may enter each category once, making for a total of six entries.
• Photographic entries must be under 10MB and .jpg format. All submissions must be the entrant’s own work, and they must own the copyright to any photographs entered.
• Photographs must have been taken within two years of the date of entry and may not previously have won an award in any National Geographic photography contest. Only minor burning, dodging and/or colour correction is acceptable, as is cropping.
• Employees and agents of APL Media Limited (APL) or any company connected with the production or distribution of a promotion or any of their associated companies are not eligible to take part in the applicable promotion, nor are their relatives or members of their families or households.
• No entries from agents, third parties, organised groups or entries automatically generated by computer will be accepted. No incomplete, illegible or corrupted entries will be accepted. The promoter retains sole discretion to refuse entrants the right to enter if it feels that these terms and conditions aren’t being complied with or for any valid and justifiable reason.

For more information, visit APL Media Limited.