For the brand new season of our legendary Getaway images competitors, we’re shaking issues up a bit. To not rock the boat, however to stimulate images’s progress. Whereas we’re nonetheless rewarding the perfect footage with unbelievable prizes, we’ll even be acknowledging creativity in a handful of style classes.
As at all times, we’ll proceed to advertise the best wildlife photographs in Africa, performing as a platform for the pool of immensely gifted photographers who’ve been contributing to our competitors for many years. Wildlife will proceed to be a spotlight however we need to share this platform with different photographers, too, and create an area for up-and-coming snappers to share their photographs.
Choose Your Style
Going ahead, whenever you enter your footage, we encourage you to pick out a class for which you’d like your picture to be thought of for extra acknowledgement – the selection of class is not going to have an effect on the number of the general Large Prize winner.
Wildlife
Something from feathers to fangs, our Getaway readers have been producing world-class wildlife pictures for greater than 30 years.
Drone and Panorama Images
With drone images persevering with to develop and the standard of panorama images in South Africa notably spectacular, this would be the place to see what bangers the native expertise is capturing.
Individuals and Tradition
Documentary images is a difficult prospect however very important in telling essential tales. What story do you need to inform?
Avenue Images
We’re searching for grungy, city expressions of avenue scenes – hit the tar and present us what you seize.
Journey and Vacation spot
Have you ever been to some distant shores with a digicam in hand? Have you ever travelled to Mongolia in winter, Eire in summer season or Paternoster in spring? When you haven’t travelled afar, don’t be deterred, we’re extra within the picture than the placement.
Rising Expertise
In a separate class altogether, we will even be searching for up-and-coming photographers, from full newbies and novices to people who’ve an eye fixed for it, however by no means thought to offer it their greatest shot. When you’re new to this recreation, you may need to tell us that you just’d wish to be thought of for this prize, too.
We welcome you to encourage kids, college students, eager-to-learn first-timers, keen-to-grow amateurs and any budding photographers they meet, to ship of their footage. That is extra “telephone” than “fancy-equipment” images and about figuring out new expertise and people with a great eye for charming pictures.
The Prizes
We’ve partnered with ORMS, a extremely revered Cape City-based seller in photographic gear, and African journey specialists Wilderness Safaris to convey you a spread of high quality prizes.
The grand prize winner will obtain a Canon EOS R7 Mirrorless Digicam Physique with EF to R Mount Adapter + a Canon RF 100-500mm Lens valued at R76 790.
They will even obtain a four-night safari for 2 folks in Botswana value R250,000, courtesy of African journey stalwart, Wilderness Safaris. This holiday-of-a-lifetime consists of nights spent at one in all Wilderness Safaris’ Basic Camps and consists of all meals and recreation drives and inner air transfers. The worth of this prize is US$15 129 (R250,000) and shall be accessible for our grand prize winner to undertake between November 2023 and Could 2024. The Basic Camps assortment in Botswana consists of such celebrated safari lodges as Little Vumbura, Chitabe Lediba Camp, Kwetsani Camp and Savuti Camp.
Second Prize is a Canon EOS R10 Mirrorless Digicam Physique with EF to R Mount Adapter + a Canon RF 100-400mm Lens valued at R27 990.
Whereas third prize is a Canon PowerShot SX70 Digicam valued at R10 395.
All class winners will additionally obtain a A1 Perspex print of their picture from ORMS Print Room and Framing.
By the ORMS Print Room & Framing division, ORMS additionally gives Skilled High quality Artwork & Decor Providers that embody an array of printing providers, customized framing, wallpaper and textile, photobooks and way more. Orms additionally runs a images college, with quick programs, talks by top-tier photographers, and photographic exhibitions.
To enter the competitors, go to https://www.getaway.co.za/picture/send-us-your-photos/