Get involved with our 2025 photography competition
Are you a budding photographer or do you just love recording Morecambe Bay’s coastline when you’re out and about?
To mark 'Morecambe Bay Day' in 2025 and to celebrate our amazing coastline, we’re launching a competition to showcase the beauty and diversity of Morecambe Bay and the talents of you, our supporters.
We know many of you capture the Bay through photographs so we’re inviting competition entries that show your best images of Morecambe Bay and everything it has to offer.
When you submit your entry, we'll ask your view on the Bay too.
From all the entries we receive, 12 winning images will be selected and published in a fundraising calendar (published, summer 2026).
For all the details and how to enter, see below.
How can you get involved?
Whatever level of engagement you have with photos and photography, we’d love you to get involved. For those of you who want inspiration have a look at the following categories:
Towns & Villages - Can you capture the Bay's towns or villages? Perhaps you live, work or study in one and want to share your everyday view?
Views & Landscapes - Could you show us your favourite view of Morecambe Bay? This can be your favourite landscape – rocky headlands, limestone outcrops, mudflats, estuaries, saltmarshes and woods.
The Bay changes so much. While blue skies and the Bay’s famous sunsets are wonderful, we know the Bay offers up other dramatic weather - snow, storms, wind, rain, moody clouds and rainbows - all of which make the Bay dynamic and captivating.
Heritage & Landmarks - Some of our best spots on the Bay are heritage landmarks and sites such as the Hoad (Ulverston), St. Peter’s Church and Heysham Village, the 'Chimney' (Jenny Brown’s Point). But can you surprise us with your snap? Do you have a stunning image of something less well known?
Nature - Do you prefer to capture the flora and fauna of Morecambe Bay? The Bay, its estuaries and surrounding countryside are famous for birdlife but are also home to seals and otters, rare butterflies and moths and beautiful orchids. Again, show us something you think is special.
* People in photographs -Unfortunately, we cannot accept photographs of people. This is due to strict data protection laws which we must comply with.
What can we offer you?
From all the entries, we’ll select 12 stunning images to feature in a fundraising calendar (published summer 2026) with full credit to each photographer/creator. You will be named as the photographer.
We’ll also publish the winning photos to our social media channels, with full image credits. Ideally, we’d accompany these posts with a little biography about the winning photographers.
And if you’re a budding photographer or a professional, who submits a winning entry, we’ll feature your social media channels and promote your photography (collectively we have over 10,000 followers across our channels).
Winning images will also be promoted in our newsletter (over 2,000 subscribers).
Competition rules and guidelines:
- We will accept ONE image per entrant.
- Your submission should be in colour.
- Your submission should be 2 - 5MB (file size) to ensure high quality. See note on image size below*
- Your submission should be in landscape format. Landscape format is when the bottom and top edge of the image is longer than the sides.
- The competition is open to all ages and abilities with TWO categories: Adults (19 and over) Children and Young People (18 and under)
- Entries must be submitted through the form below.
- Please only submit one image which you have taken yourself. This is important in the spirit of our community and our professional ethos - please do not send images created by someone else or taken from social media/Google. Any image you submit must be taken by you.
- Naming your file
Please name your file before submission, as follows:
Image title (what and where) _Your name_Category a or b
eg. Oystercatchers at Half Moon Bay_Joe Bloggs_category a
eg. Small blue butterfly_Arnside Knott_Joe Bloggs Junior_category b
This tells us:- the title of your image (what and where)
- your name
- submission category - whether you belong to:
- Adults (19 and over) OR b) Children and Young People (18 and under)
- Please follow the rules and submission guidelines carefully. Your entry may be rejected if it does not comply with guidelines.
- The deadline for entries is 4pm on Friday 20th February 2025.
- Please note that for design purposes, we may need to crop images.
- The final winning 12 images will be selected by the team at Morecambe Bay Partnership.
Entries close at 4pm on Friday 20th February 2025.
Winning entries will be selected by Friday 6th March.
*Image size: 12 winning entries will be selected for a fundraising calendar and printed professionally. The image you submit need to be of high resolution (300 dpi or 300 dots per inch).
To ensure we can print high quality copies of winning images, we ask you to submit file sizes of between 2 - 5Mb as these will be high resolution and suitable for professional print.
Files that are below 1Mb may not be suitable for print. Images less than 200Kb are not suitable and likely to pixilate.
Do send the original raw High-Resolution image taken by the camera and check the file size (between 2-5 MB is ideal) and the resolution (300 dpi) before sending. Thank you.
Good luck and we look forward to seeing beautiful Morecambe Bay through your eyes. You can submit your image below.