To be judged next season during October 2011 

Theme: ROCK, BOULDER, STONE 

      On a recent visit to see our daughter in Dubai, we were taken to the mountains of Oman. In the desert the limestone strata were laid bare: the complex folds and faults were a geologist’s dream. One of my mother’s favourite viewpoints was Stanage Edge in the Derbyshire Peak District, where the cliff edge of millstone grit stands stark against the sky line.

      The theme of this year’s Mary Luckham Trophy is:

       ROCK, BOULDER, STONE.

Your aim is to produce two mounted prints to illustrate the theme. 

      Your prints could show rocks in their bare glory in the landscape. Rocks could be worn down into individual boulders; they could form pebbles on a beach or river bed; they could show human use of rock as in the Georgian buildings of Bath; the houses and mills of Victorian Yorkshire or the abandoned millstones which lie beneath Stanage Edge. Locally, of course, Stonehenge and the Cathedral are great examples of stonework. 

      The choice is yours: the raw material – the rock, boulder or stone should be a key element of your pictures. A link between your pictures would be helpful: this could be indicated by suitable titles, which should indicate your objectives. 

      Remember, these should be this summer’s pictures 

Good shooting, Peter Woodhouse.

April 2011

To see last years Competition click HERE