€4,000 In Prizes Up For Grabs In Landscape Photo Competition

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One of the entries in last year’s competition.

PHOTOGRAPHY enthusiasts across Kerry are being encouraged to enter their best inspirational images of the Irish landscape into a €4,000 competition organised by IrishLight, an annual festival celebrating the best of Irish photography.

The IrishLight Open Call competition, which is now open to entries until September 8, is part of the build-up to the full festival in Autumn, with winners to be announced on October 15 at theIrishLight ‘Big Day’ event featuring a full day of inspirational photography talks and exhibitions involving eminent Irish and international speakers.

The overall theme of IrishLight 2017 is ‘An T-Oileán’, meaning ‘The Island’ in English, with the flagship event being seven simultaneous photography workshops on seven islands involving award-winning professionals and amateurs from September 28 to October 1.

Taking place onTory Island, Clare Island, Inisturk, The Blaskets, Sherkin & Cape Clear, Inis Mor and Bere Island, the photographers involved will capture the best of these extraordinary island vistas to create a unique body of work, the IrishLight Collection 2017.

To enter and see some of last year’s entries, click here

Peter Gordon, IrishLight founder and eminent landscape photographer, said: “IrishLight aims to bring the best professional Irish-based landscape photographers together with the outstanding international practitioners in the field, while also mobilising the amazing enthusiastic talent that exists both here and abroad.  Building on last year’s success, the 2017 festival provides a platform for inspiring exhibitions and education, with the Irish landscape once again providing the perfect backdrop.  This year we will bring some of the most revered photographers together and scatter them across seven of Ireland’s exquisite islands allowing participants to learn from real masters of photography.  The will culminate in a new IrishLight collection and fantastic range of festival events in September and October.”

“I now strongly urge all the amateur photography enthusiasts across Ireland to join the celebrations and take the opportunity to show their undoubted expertise and creativity by entering our Open Call to avail of the outstanding prizes on offer,” Gordon added.

The Open Call Competition has partnered with Nikon, ExploreLight and Lee Filters to find the best amateur images of the Irish landscape, with give-away photography prizes worth a total value of €4,000 on offer to the winners.

Entries should be sent to  info@irishlight.ie with an email subject line ‘IrishLight Open Call 17’. For further information on the competition, see http://irishlight.ie/competition Those who wish to enter are advised to read through thoroughly both the instructions on how to enter and the rules of the competition.

For more information on the IrishLight Festival 2017, visit www.irishlight.ie or https://www.facebook.com/irishlightfestival/.

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