Photocompete

• Copyright: All images will be credited. Copyright in all images submitted for this competition remains with the respective entrants. Images will only be used by Amateur Photographer, in connection with the promotion of the competition and as part of the prize.
• Entry fee: Free
• Entry deadline: 30th November 2014
• Who can enter: Open to all photographers, worldwide.

AP is looking for a photograph taken by an AP reader to feature on the cover of this year’s Christmas Special. We want a picture that typifies the season, so it could be a snowy landscape, the northern lights, winter wildlife – in fact, anything that you think best illustrates the festive season. It could be an image that you already have on file or maybe you want to spend time thinking about an idea and then go out to shoot it. Try to avoid the usual Christmas cliché images, though, as we’re looking for something stunning and eye-catching.

Prize:

• If your image is chosen to appear on the cover, you will receive a payment of £200, plus a Camlink CMP1 Monopod and National Geographic rucksack.

Image requirements: The image should be in portrait format. While a low-resolution image will be required initially (minimum of 800 pixels wide and a maximum of 2MB in size), a high-resolution image of at least 3,500 pixels along its longest edge will be needed for publication.

Online submission of digital photographs via the website or Flickr.

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