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Countryfile
launches Photographic Competition 2003
 This
Sunday (4 May 2003) sees the official launch of the Countryfile
Photographic Competition 2003 at 11.30am on BBC ONE.
Countryfile
presenter John Craven is joined by photographer Lord Lichfield and
top landscape photographer Charlie Waite at the Lichfield ancestral
home, Shugborough Hall.
A
group of amateur photographers from the Royal Photographic Society
and the Smethwick Photographic Society will receive a master-class
from the experts.
Last
year's competition was the most successful year to date, receiving
upwards of 9,000 entries.
The
competition was an outstanding success and more than 33,000 calendars
containing the winning images were sold.
£120,000
was given to BBC Children in Need - more than the total for the
previous three years.
The
theme for this year's competition is The Four Seasons in the
British Countryside, encouraging photographers, old and new,
to enter images that show off the countryside at its best - in all
weathers.
The
judges' top 12 images will be printed in the 2004 calendar and the
overall winner will be chosen by Countryfile viewers in a telephone
vote.
Notes
to Editors
The
closing date is 5 September 2003 - so viewers should get snapping.
Photographers
should send their entries to: Photographic Competition 2003, Countryfile,
BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ.
Competition
rules can also be obtained by sending a SAE to: The Rules - Photographic
Competition 2003, Countryfile, BBC Birmingham, B5 7QQ.
Viewers
can also log onto www.bbc.co.uk/factsheets/countryfile.
Countryfile
is on Sundays, at 11.30am on BBC ONE.
New
hour long BBC ONE Countryfile (01.05.03)
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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