Type to search

Commercial Fishing

STILL TIME TO SUBMIT WINNING SEA PHOTOS

STILL TIME TO SUBMIT WINNING

Still time to submit winning sea photos.  Photographers across the UK have less than a month to enter their best images of the sea in an annual photography competition run by national maritime charity, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.

The competition, which closes on Monday 29 August, encourages photographers of all abilities to submit images that capture the UK’s unique relationship with the sea, including its merchant ships, fishermen, coasts, harbours and ports.

In celebration of the competition’s tenth year, the Society is encouraging individuals to go out and capture new views from the UK’s coastal communities this year, with the overall winner receiving a £500 photographic equipment voucher.

In addition to the dedicated entry submission form on the Society’s website, entrants can also submit photos through its Instagram channel (@ShipwreckedMariners) by using the hashtag #SMSPhotoComp2022.

The competition will once again be judged by a prestigious panel of experts, including Online Picture Editor at The Telegraph, Neil Stevenson, former Sunday Times Picture Editor, Ray Wells, Picture Editor of the i, Sophie Batterbury, and the Chief Executive of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, Capt. Justin Osmond RN.

With the competition deadline approaching, Captain Justin Osmond RN, said: “Over the last decade it has been incredible to see the competition grow year on year. It is amazing to see the nation enjoy our coastlines and support our maritime industry with a passion each year and I know this competition will be another special one!

“Having seen the standard of entries so far this year, we are undoubtedly set for another extremely challenging judging process, with the outstanding winning images revealed in September.”

The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society supports fishermen, merchant mariners and their dependants who are suffering financial hardship, whether due to accident, ill health, unemployment or in retirement after a life spent working at sea. A total of £1.3 million was paid in grants during the past year in over 1,700 cases of need.

To enter the competition, individuals can submit their photographs through the dedicated form at https://shipwreckedmariners.org.uk/photography-competition-2022/ before the deadline on 29 August 2022. Photographers can also enter their pictures via email, post or on the Society’s Instagram channel @ShipwreckedMariners) using the hashtag #SMSPhotoComp2022.

Tags