Lowestoft Journal Photo Competition

Lowestoft Journal photo of the week winner

An Amarylis photographed by Val Bond

Picture

Picture Studios is often working in partnership with the Lowestoft Journal and they are providing the weekly prize for our photo competition

Picture Studios
179 London Road North
Lowestoft
NR32 1HG

www.picturestudios.net

THIS vibrant red and white amaryllis, beautifully accentuated by a plain black background, has been selected as the winner of The Journal’s Picture of the Week competition.

The image was sent in by Val Bond, of Rushlake Way, Lowestoft, who triumphs in the competition for the first time.

Her prize-winning image beat over 40 other images and all of the photographs put forward to the competition can be seen on our website www.lowestoftjournal24.co.uk

Here you will find a slideshow displaying all of the entries we received this week as well as links to past entrants, as we showcase some of the finest images taken by the region’s amateur photographers.

Having won, Val will be presented with a winning photograph in a 12in x 10in frame, mounted and inscribed, in a prize worth more than £60 from Picture Studios, of London Road North, Lowestoft.

Her photo will also go forward to the next final of winning images where, together with her fellow prize-winners, she will have a chance to win the image in a printed 12in x 18in photo block worth £130.

How to enter

We are now accepting entries for next week’s competition. They have to be taken by amateur photographers and we would prefer the pictures to be digital and between 500KB and 1MB in size. We will also accept prints.

To enter, send your picture, along with your name, address and contact details, to Journal editor Russell Cook at richard.wood@archant.co.uk and mark your e-mail “Journal photo competition”.

Prints can be sent to:Russell Cook, Editor, The Journal, 147 London Road North, Lowestoft, NR32 1NB.


Slideshow of entries for June 27, 2008

 

 

Previous photo competitions

2008

June 20

June 13

June 6

May 30

May 23

May 16

 

To view the first Gallery of Winners, click here

 

Tiger

Winner of the past 26 weeks

Meanwhile, entries have flooded in from readers who voted for the best winning image over the past 26 week which featured a host of imaginative photographs.

And the winner, with a total of 21 votes, was Carl Baldry, of Pinewood Avenue, Lowestoft, with his picture of a tiger at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens, at Filby.