Page 14 - ALG Issue 2 2017

Competition
We are running the Shield photo competition again this year and looking for images that illustrate why you love your plot or site and grow your own food.
Please send in quality images for the three categories below, which we can use in our magazine, on our website and to supply allotment picture requests from national media. Many thanks to all those who sent in competition entries in 2016. We hope that you have enjoyed seeing them on the website; please do send in more this year.
• Transformations – take a picture of your plot at the beginning of the season and then again when it is looking fruitful.
• Strange fruit and vegetables - send us images of your most adventurous crop.
• National Allotments Week – what did you do for National Allotments Week?
One overall £250 winner voted for by members; the shortlisted images will appear on the website from 29 August to 9 September.
Three category winners – 1 year NAS individual membership Three category highly commended – 1 year ALG subscription
Entry deadline 25 August; the judging panel will be made up of representatives from the NAS, Crest Publications and Shield Total Insurance. Winners will be announced by late September and details published in ALG4 distributed late October/early November. Images should be at least 2500 by 3500 pixels at 300 dpi and submitted
as jpegs. Please name the images. Email entries to marketing@ nsalg.org.uk. Before sending in your photographs, please refer to the full competition terms and conditions - available to download on the NAS website on this page: www.nsalg.org.uk/news-events- campaigns/shield-total-insurance-allotment-fund/
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Shield/National
Allotment Society Photo
Competition 2017
Sponsored by Shield Total Insurance
£250
PRIZE!
Apology from the Editor...
Abject apologies to Christine Williams whose image won the 2016 Wildlife Category but an administration error attributed the image to another Christine! Here is the winning image again.