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Entries received during 2012 can be viewed by clicking on the name of the month in the table below. Please note that there is no monthly element to the competition, organising images by month of receipt is for display purposes only.

This is a fun competition for photographers of all abilities to celebrate the beauty of birds of prey!

Featuring six main categories, this competition (the calendar competition) gives photographers, both amateur and professional, the chance to show off their talents and have their work appear in print as we will produce the six category winners and six runners-up in the 2014 Hawk Conservancy Trust Calendar, which is sold in the Trust shop and on-line.

Categories for the photographic competition :

1. Portrait. Best portrait photograph of a Hawk Conservancy Trust bird of prey.
2. Action. Best photograph of a Hawk Conservancy Trust bird of prey in a flying display.
3. Working relationship.Best photograph demonstrating the relationship between a member of Trust staff and a Hawk Conservancy Trust bird of prey.
4. Flora and fauna. Best photograph of the wildflowers, shrubs, plants, trees, insects, mammals and wildlife around the grounds of the Trust (excludes birds of prey).
5. In the wild. Best photograph of a wild (non-captive/non-Trust) bird of prey taken in its natural setting.
6. Young Photographer. Best photograph in any category, taken by an under 16 year old.

Please note that all photographs must have been taken either on the Trust grounds or at other locations where Trust birds are displayed by Trust staff, with the exception of those entered into the 'In the Wild' category.

Caption Competition: running parallel to the calendar competition is a caption competition that adds an element of humour to the images. Each month, a photograph will be posted on the Hawk Conservancy Trust website and captions for it invited. The caption most enjoyed by our ‘judge of the month’ will go forward to the end of the year, when a final judging will select the overall winner.

Entry: in order to enter for the calendar competition or the caption competition a one-off entry fee of £5.00 must be paid to the Trust (one fee covers both competitions). Submission of caption suggestions is free of charge!

Please read the 2012 Competition Rules carefully, and complete and submit the on-line form

Closing date: the closing date for the calendar competition and caption competition will be 31st December 2012.

Judging: winning entries will be judged by a panel chosen from our corporate sponsors and Trust staff. TV presenter and zoologist, Chris Packham, will choose the overall winner for 2012

Awards: each calendar competition category will be awarded a winner and a highly commended. Both will receive a wildlife digital photography book, and the section winners will win a photographic day at the Trust. The overall calendar competition winner and a guest will be invited to attend one of the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s photographic experiences.

The overall photographic competition winner and a guest will also be invited to attend one of Wild Arena’s UK photographic workshops, at a zoological collection of their choice.

There will also be a caption competition prize for the best caption, and for the photograph to which the caption was applied!

Please read competition rules before entering the competition.

Good luck and happy snapping!!

For further information, please contact:
Gale Gould, Hawk Conservancy Trust, Visitor Centre, Sarson Lane, Weyhill, Andover, Hants, SP11 8DY

Telephone: 01264 773850 x223
Email gale@hawkconservancy.org
Please do not send your entries to Gale.

You will need to complete an entry form to cover each batch of photographs you submit. Your entry cannot be displayed on the web site until our webmaster has received the entry form.

Complete the entry form.

Competition Rules

1. All entries must be taken during 2012, and must feature only birds of prey taken at the Hawk Conservancy Trust (or at other locations where Trust birds are displayed by Trust staff, such as Longleat), wild birds of prey taken in their natural setting, or animals, insects, wildlife, plants and/or fungi found at the Trust’s visitor centre.
2. A single entry of no more than two images per photographer, per category, may be submitted during each month from the commencement of the competition until its closing date. We can only accept one entry per photographer per month in the ‘caption competition’.
3. All entries must be sent electronically. Images should be supplied in JPG format at a minimum resolution of 72 dpi or in an alternative high resolution format suitable for printing. Images may be sent as a batch, without size limitation, using the free file transfer service www.wetransfer.com (or similar). Images may alrenatively be sent as email attachments, and may be resized to a minimum of 1600 pixels on the longest side. If sending as email attachments, the size of each email with its attachments must not exceed 10MB. Images in other formats or below the minimum size cannot be accepted
4. All images must be originals and must not have been digitally enhanced or manipulated (other than simple cropping and minimal processing). Monochrome photographs, including colour photographs reduced to monochrome (grey-scale) are acceptable.
5. The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers. Please indicate on the entry form.
6. In order to enter the competition the entrant must pay a one-off entry fee of £5.00.The fee may be paid by cash, cheque (made payable to the Hawk Conservancy Trust), credit card/debit card or PayPal. Please pay either in person at the Trust shop, by telephone to the Trust office on 01264 773850, or on line.
7. An entry form must accompany each entry, and must contain the photographer’s name, address, telephone number and email address. It must also be clear on the entry form, into which category each photograph is entered.
8. There will be no cash alternative to the announced prizes; the judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into by the judges.
9. Copyright. You must be the sole author and owner of the copyright for all images entered. By entering your images into the competition, you give the Hawk Conservancy Trust (HCT) a non-exclusive licence to reproduce the images for any purpose in connection with the competition including, but not limited to, the following purposes: judging the competition, display of winning entries held at the HCT, inclusion into the BIAZA photographic competition, inclusion within HCT marketing and promotional material and for use in HCT merchandise. The HCT reserves the right to display, reproduce and publish in any media any entry, without payment, for the sole purpose of the HCT and its promotion and publicity. Should the Trust use any image for promotional or other purposes every effort will be made to give credit to the photographer.
10. The calendar competition is not open to members of the Hawk Conservancy Trust staff and their immediate family.
11. Young Photographer entries must show entrant's age.
12. Entries will be displayed, organised by month of receipt, on the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s web site at www.hawkconservancy.org. There is no monthly element to the calendar competition.

Results of the Hawk Conservancy Trust 2011 international photographic competition is now under way may be seen here.