WildNet - Bob Coyle
Photography competition
Enter your photographs for your chance to feature in our 2026 calendar.
We've launched our annual photography competition to find 12 stunning images for our 2026 calendar - and we need YOUR photos!
Check for wildlife in your garden or head out into our beautiful countryside and start snapping. From birds to butterflies and gardens to nature reserves, we're looking for the special creatures and wild places you can find in our fabulous region.
We're also looking for that iconic Cheshire view. Whether that be the Wirral coastline, Bickerton Hill, Kerridge Hill, Peckforton, Frodsham, or White Nancy. Unleash your inner photographer!
Last year's overall winner
The overall winner, Short-eared owl, Port Sunlight by Peter Tarpey, features on the cover and for the month of December in our 2025 calendar.
What do I win?
There can only be 12 winners and each of these wins a full page A4 position in our calendar as well as a copy of the calendar. The overall winner will see their photo on the front cover of the calendar and will also feature in Your WildLife magazine.
12 runner up photos will be featured throughout the calendar. All winners and runners up will receive a free copy of the calendar. Their photographs will feature in our weekly e-newsletter and on Cheshire Wildlife Trust’s website and social media. Keep up to date with us on Facebook, X, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Who are the judges?
The competition will be judged by our Vice-President and award-winning photographer Ben Hall. Ben is one of the UK's most highly-acclaimed wildlife photographers, with his work regularly seen across almost every major British natural history publication from BBC Wildlife, through to the RSPB's Nature's Home and several leading photography magazines. Ben's emotive and evocative images - many of which are captured from here in the region - have received numerous national and international awards.
How do I enter?
Through the website
To enter, please fill in this form and upload your photograph(s). There is a maximum of three photos per photographer.
If you're having trouble with the online form, please email kwade@cheshirewt.org.uk.
Image size: Images should be landscape and MUST be 300dpi, 12"x8" (A4) jpeg images. Images not submitted at this size cannot be considered.
Closing date for all entries is Saturday 31st May 2025.
Terms and Conditions
- Closing date for all entries is Saturday 31st May 2025.
- Images must be accompanied by an entry form where the entrant signs to agree to their use by Cheshire Wildlife Trust as described. Photographers will always be credited.
- Images must be landscape and be 300dpi, 12"x8" (A4) jpg images.
- Images not submitted as landscape and at this size cannot be considered.
- Images must have been taken in the wild in Cheshire and locations specified when submitting (covers Cheshire, Warrington, Wirral, Halton, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford). We do not accept photos of pets or from Chester Zoo.
- A maximum of three images per person can be entered into the competition.
- Judges will be looking for 'natural' photos, so entrants should avoid too much post-processing and the use of post-camera effects.
- Winners and runners up will receive one FREE copy of the 2026 calendar and announced on social our media channels as well as in our Autumn members’ magazine, Your WildLife.
Don’t forget
Welfare of the subject is top priority. Please don’t stress a subject just for a photo; the wildlife is more important than the image.
Make sure you stay on paths or within designated areas.
Closing date for entries is Saturday 31st May 2025!
