As autumn turns to winter, capture the Churnet Valley’s unique character and natural beauty with your camera and enter your snaps in our photographic competition A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley.
A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley is a competition for amateur photographers of all ages.
Organised by The Friends of the Churnet Valley and The Phoenix Trust, the competition allows snappers to photograph life in the valley throughout the year.
There are no categories and snaps can be taken of anything or of any activity in the valley.
You can use any kind of digital camera, phone or other device to take your photos. The competition runs until the end of February, 2013. For more details go to www.northstaffordshire.co.uk/?p=9160
Explore the Churnet Valley with your camera this weekend and enter your snaps in our photographic competition A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley.
A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley is a competition for amateur photographers of all ages.
Organised by The Friends of the Churnet Valley and The Phoenix Trust, the competition allows snappers to photograph life in the valley throughout the year. There are no categories and snaps can be taken of anything or of any activity in the valley. Here are a few suggestions. You could use your camera to photograph:
The Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations
The valley in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
Heritage buildings and historic markets in Leek and Cheadle
The Caldon Canal and the Churnet Valley Railway
Village life in Alton, Cheddleton, Oakamoor and Denstone.
You can use any kind of digital camera, phone or other device to take your photos. The competition runs until the end of February, 2013. For more details go to www.northstaffordshire.co.uk/?p=9160
Alton Towers has been approached by Wall to Wall Media, the company that makes ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ for the BBC.
The company is researching the Towers’ history from 1925 to 1938 when several of the grand state rooms were run as tea rooms by Mary Zillah Waddicor.
Although a few photographs of the tea rooms survive very little is known about them. If you can help Wall to Wall’s researches please contact Maxine Ostwald on 020 3301 8471 or email her at maxine.ostwald@walltowall.co.uk
If the weather is fine and you want to spend a day relaxing in beautiful surroundings why not visit the Churnet Valley?
Take your camera and enter your snaps in our photographic competition A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley.
A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley is a photographic completion for amateur photographers of all ages.
Organised by The Friends of the Churnet Valley and The Phoenix Trust, the competition allows snappers to photograph life in the valley throughout the year and record the changing seasons.
There are no categories and snaps can be taken of anything or of any activity in the valley.
You could use your camera to photograph:
Heritage buildings
The valley in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
Village life in Alton, Cheddleton, Oakamoor and Denstone
The Caldon Canal, Rudyard Lake and The Churnet Valley Railway
Social life, leisure and sporting activities including sailing, horse riding, cycling and walking
Markets in Leek and Cheadle.
You can use any kind of digital camera, phone or other device to take your photos.
The competition runs until the end of February, 2013.
Images which must be embedded in an email (attachments will not be accepted) should be sent to photophoenix727@live.co.uk giving your name and address and your age if under 18.
Have a most relaxing and enjoyable weekend. We look forward to seeing you again when we return to work on Wednesday, April 11th.
The Phoenix Trust Team
Visit http://www.northstaffordshire.co.uk/?p=8 to learn why the North Staffordshire Coalfield’s Industrial Landscape and the Churnet Valley merit World Heritage Site Status.
A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley is an online photographic competition for amateur photographers organised by The Friends of the Churnet Valley and The Phoenix Trust.
There are no categories. Photographs showing any aspect of life in the Churnet Valley, Leek, Cheadle and Kingsley can be entered in the competition. However, there are a few simple rules.
These are:
A. The competition is for amateur photographers.
B. Entrants are divided into three age groups:
a. Under 11
b. 11 to 18
c. Over 18
C. Prizes will be awarded to the winners in each age group and their photographs will be used to produce a calendar.
D. The closing date for entries is March 31st, 2013.
E. Each entrant may submit a maximum of eight images made up as follows:
a. Two for Spring
b. Two for Summer
c. Two for Autumn
d. Two for Winter
F. The judges’ decision is final.
G. The Friends of the Churnet Valley and The Phoenix Trust reserve the right to reproduce for exhibition, publication and marketing any image entered in the competition.
H. Images which must be embedded in an email (attachments will not be accepted) should be sent to photophoenix727@live.co.uk giving your name and address and your age if under 18.
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