Hi there and welcome to our contest area. This is where you'll get all the blurb on contests we are running and how you can get involved and take part.

One thing we do ask is Please don’t just upload a photo, tell us a little about it and why you pressed the shutter button. We’ll invite members to vote on the pictures and the winner will get a truly wonderful prize... Our respect and a feature on our news wall. So get snapping and be safe. 

It's the Love Month and Photosense are interested in photos that signify love. We want to know what love means to our photographers, other than your cameras!!

We don't want it given to us straight, we prefer your pictorial love served in the strangest and most contorted of angles.

Remember the theme is love so interpret what love means to you pictorially.

We do not condone hanging from trees with the camera strapped to your foot, but what we want to know is the weirdest angle you have shot from and to see the end product. Please don’t just upload a photo, tell us a little about it and why you chose that angle. We’ll invite members to vote on the pictures and the winner will get a truly wonderful prize... Our respect and a feature on our news wall. So get snapping and be safe.

Final date of entry is Monday 28th February 2011.

Good luck!

We are creatures of habit. Many of us when we start out in photography view the world from, well from where are eyes are pointed, which is usually straight ahead. How often do we lie on the ground and contemplate the sky, or climb a tree for a bird’s eye view? Let’s face it, our perspectives are pretty linear, simply because this is how our hunter’s eyes are trained to see. We think on a very flat plane, which is very odd, because the very reason we have two eyes is so that we can see in three dimensions, to understand depth and distance and to focus with almost imperceptible speed.

So here’s a question for you. How often, before you line up a shot in your viewfinder, do you take the time to walk around the object you want to snap? How often, as well as measuring light and calculating f-stops and ISO and speed, do you think to yourself, ‘I wonder if I can get a better shot from a different angle?' I have climbed ladders, lain in mud and I’ve walked around buildings to get a better shot. Whether I’ve actually gotten the better shot only time and some critic after my death can tell. My point is, once you’ve seen how the light falls on every facet of your subject, looked from above and below and sometimes even inside and out, become spatially aware and had the epiphany that objects are three dimensional and not the flat photograph that eventually ends up on a computer screen; or printed off if it’s lucky; that’s when your mind’s eye begins to see the possibilities in a photograph before it’s taken.

Well that is just about it for now boys and girls, we can't wait to see your amazing creations!