Publisher launches competition for brand-new Woodland Trust card range
Amateur snappers have a chance to create their very own tree-mendous Hallmark moment thanks to a Woodland Trust photography competition.
The Bradford-based publisher is creating a brand-new range in partnership with the conservation charity so is looking for photos to use on the woodland-themed cards, that have been taken in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
“We’re asking people to get outside this spring and really take notice of the natural world around you,” Hallmark head of marketing Jess Lovelace said, “and we want you to take loads of beautiful photographs of your local woodlands and native British trees while you’re at it and share the best ones with us!”
Entries must be submitted before midnight on 30 April via connected@hallmark-uk.com with the subject line Hallmark Photography Competition, and include your name and photograph location in the email.
Hallmark’s design team will then select a shortlist of 12 of the best images from all the entries – based on composition, originality, points of interest, use of colour, lighting and technical quality – to be approved by the Woodland Trust.
In stage two of the judging process the shortlisted pictures will be shared with Hallmark employees who will vote on their favourites, and the top six will be used to create Hallmark’s inaugural Woodland Trust Collection.
Each winning entry will appear on greeting cards sold in aid of the charity, and the designs will include the photographer’s name and the location where the photograph was taken.
The winners will also receive a prize bag containing the full six-card collection from Hallmark, a Woodland Trust hedgehog shopping bag, a Woodland Trust luxury A6 jotter pad, Birds Swatch Book, Leaf Swatch Book, and reusable rCUP.
Full terms and conditions are available here, which detail that entrants must be 18+ years, cannot be professional photographers – someone who makes more than half their annual income from selling photographs – and the pictures should be taken in local woodland, public parks, or in other publicly-accessible land and should feature British native trees or woodland, a list of which can be found here.
Entrants can submit up to five photographs, which should be 300dpi, and a minimum size of 203x270mm that may be cropped to fit a 160x160mm card format.
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