The theme for this year's competition is British Nature, encouraging amateur photographers everywhere to enter images that show off the countryside at its best - in all weathers.

This year's top twelve images will be printed in the 2005 calendar and the overall winner will be chosen by Countryfile viewers in a telephone vote. The closing date is Friday 10 September 2004 - so get snapping!

Here's the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/environm.../apr11.shtml#1


No Photoshop !

Rule 4:
The photographic image, either digitally captured or on silver halide, must not be subject to manipulation including but not limited to the combining and retouching of images. BBC Countryfile and the judges reserve the right to exclude any image they believe may have been excessively treated so as to alter its authenticity.

Rule 5:
The competition is open to UK residents only (including residents of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man). Employees of BBC Worldwide, the BBC, and their immediate families are not eligible to enter.

Rule 6:
Entrants must not be professional photographers.

Rule 13:
All entries must be original work and must not have been previously published. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright in all photos entered and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries.

Rule 14:
By entering the competition entrants grant the right for the BBC and another publisher to publish and exhibit the twelve short-listed photographs on television, in print, on their respective websites or in any other media as they think fit, free of charge. Entrants will also be deemed to have consented to the short-listed photographs being published in a calendar or for prints to be sold individually, in aid of the BBC Children In Need Appeal. No fee will be payable for this use. Finalists agree to take part in post-competition publicity.


Read all the rules:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/environm...otorules.shtml