CJPOTY round 6: Wildlife

The theme for the sixth round of the 2023/24 Digicam Jabber Photographer of the Year (CJPOTY) competitors is ‘Wildlife’. Animals make such fascinating topics and we’re wanting ahead to seeing photographs out of your wildlife encounters, whether or not that’s with tiny bugs in your again backyard or majestic elephants from a safari. The images could be taken anyplace and at any time.

This round of our month-to-month competitors is open for submissions till 23:59 BST (00:59 CET and 15:59 PST) on thirtieth June 2023.

To submit your entry comply with the hyperlink to cjpoty or click on on the CJPOTY button on the high of any of our web site pages. You may submit as much as three entries for £2.00 plus fee processing prices (£0.26). Photos must be Jpegs at the least 1920 pixels alongside their longest facet however no bigger than 2MB.

Digicam Jabber Photographer of the Year prizes

On the finish of the month, the Digicam Jabber workforce will choose one successful picture and 9 runners-up from the June entries. The photographer of the successful picture will obtain a voucher from MPB.com to the worth of £500 which could be spent on something from an enormous vary of equipment from the World’s largest platform for used photographic gear.

All 10 of the chosen photographs will go into our shortlist for the year.

We’ll do that every month in 2023 in order that by the tip of the year, there might be 120 shortlisted photographs. These will then go earlier than our improbable panel of judges who will resolve the first, 2nd and Third-placed photographs.

The photographer of the first-placed picture general, as determined by the panel of judges, will obtain a voucher to the worth of £1000 from MPB.com in addition to a trophy and the title ‘Digicam Jabber Photographer of the Year 2024‘. The photographers who come second and third will obtain vouchers price £500 and £250 respectively.

You don’t must enter the competitors each month, however you might be welcome to take action and the extra shortlisted photographs you’ve on the finish of the year, the better the possibility of successful the highest prize.

CJPOTY VIP Judges

On the finish of the year, our illustrious panel of judges has the onerous job of choosing the primary, second and third-placed photographs general from the shortlist of 120. Our judges are:

Benedict Brain – Photographer, journalist & Sigma ambassador
Sophie Collins – Chief Advertising and marketing Workplace at MPB, Trustee of Royal Photographic Society
Donna Crous – Meals photographer, writer, Nikon Europe ambassador and Rotolight Grasp of Gentle
Ross Hoddinott – Panorama photographer, wildlife photographer, writer, tutor, conservationist
Tracy Marshall-Grant – Arts Director, curator and producer
Denise Maxwell – Multi-genre photographer and lecturer
Carolyn Mendelsohn – Artist and portrait photographer
Paul Sanders – effective artwork photographer
Jemella Ukaegbu – Photographer & founding father of UK Black Feminine Photographers (UKBFTOG)
Christina Vaughan – Founding father of Cultura Artistic, the house of inclusive inventory pictures

Comply with the hyperlink to seek out out extra concerning the CJPOTY judges.

About MPB

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Headquartered within the artistic communities of Brighton, Brooklyn and Berlin, the MPB workforce contains educated camera consultants and seasoned photographers and videographers who carry their ardour to work day by day to ship excellent service. Each piece of equipment is inspected rigorously by product specialists and comes with a six-month guarantee to present prospects peace of thoughts that purchasing used doesn’t imply sacrificing reliability.