WW4BB Presents: APOY 2013 - Competition for Amateur Photographers

APOY 2013 - Your chance to enter the UK's most prestigious competition for amateur photographers

 Amateur Photographer of the Year 2013

Your chance to enter the UK's most prestigious competition for amateur photographers. Here we give you the details on how to enter APOY 2013 by email, rules and all the terms and conditions. 

 We receive thousands of entries from all around the world, and last year saw a very high standard of submissions that made the task of choosing a winner each month very difficult. By the end of the ten rounds, though, one person had emerged the clear winner and 2012's Amateur Photographer of the Year was Dan Deakin from Nottingham.

 APOY 2013 follows the same format as last year, with ten monthly rounds from February until November. The competition is open to all amateur photographers and each month's round follows a distinct theme. After the closing date of each round, the entries are narrowed down to a shortlist of 50, then the top 30, and finally the top three. Points are awarded to each image for creativity, technical excellence and how well the image fulfills the brief. Judges are looking for original, imaginative and well-executed pictures that explore the theme in an exciting way. The names of the top 50 photographers from each round appear on our website, along with the images from the top 30. The top 30 images are also published in the magazine at the end of the month. After the ten rounds, the person with the most points accumulated over all the rounds will be crowned Amateur Photographer of the Year 2013.