APOY

Plus, Adobe and Viewsonic

Also joining us for 2024, are Adobe and ViewSonic, who are contributing some fantastic prizes!

Why enter APOY?

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The Camera Club award

Do you belong to a camera club? You can accumulate points for your society when you enter APOY. Select your camera club when entering.

If you are a member of a camera club, tell us your UK camera club when you fill out our simple agreement form before you enter your first image.

After all ten rounds are complete, the club with the most points will win the overall title.

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What could I win?

Amateur Photographer of the Year Grand Prize winner:

Our grand prize winner will take home a £1,000 voucher for the Camera Centre UK.

Amateur Photographer of the Year round winners:

Round winners will also get over £1,000 worth of prizing, including a £500 Camera Centre UK voucher and an ‘All Apps’ Adobe Creative Clouds annual subscription worth £660.

The Creative Cloud ‘All Apps’ plan includes more than 20 creative apps including Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Acrobat Pro, Bridge, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and many more, as well as 100GB of Cloud storage, step-by-step tutorials, Creative Cloud Libraries, Adobe Fonts and more.

The runner up in each round will receive a one-year subscription to the Adobe Photography plan (worth £120) which combines the power of Lightroom and Photoshop for maximum creativity and to edit, store, and share your images. It also includes 20GB of cloud storage, step-by-step tutorials, Adobe Portfolio Creative Cloud Libraries and more.

Young APOY 2024

Young Amateur Photographer of the Year round winners:

The winner of each round of Young APOY will receive a one-year subscription to the Adobe Photography plan (worth £120) which combines the power of Lightroom and Photoshop for maximum creativity and to edit, store, and share your images. It also includes 20GB of cloud storage, step-by-step tutorials, Adobe Portfolio Creative Cloud Libraries and more.

Young Amateur Photographer of the Year grand prize winner:

At the end of the 10 rounds, the photographer with the most combined points will be crowned the Young Amateur Photographer of the Year 2024, and will take home a £300 voucher to spend at Camera Centre UK.

Camera Club winners

This year we are offering prizing worth £2,500 to the club that amasses the most points after all ten rounds are complete. You can accumulate points for your club when you enter APOY, and the club with the most points will win a fabulous ViewSonic X1-4K projector worth £1,500.

In addition, the member of the winning club who contributed the most points to their club’s points tally will win a ViewSonic ColorPro VP2786-4K monitor worth £1,000. You’ll have the option to tell us your UK camera club when you fill out the APOY agreement form.

* Please note that for 2024, the Camera Centre vouchers are available only to winning photographers who are based in the UK.

Learn more about our sponsors and prizes here.

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Plan your APOY 2024 entries

Below is a list of all this year’s rounds, including opening and closing dates:

Round One, Black & White: Opens 27th March. Closes 22nd April

Round Two, Animal Kingdom: Opens 23rd April, Closes 20th May

Round Three, Urban Life: Opens 21st May, Closes 17th June

Round Four, Action: Opens 18th June, Closes 15th July

Round Five, Landscapes: Opens 16th July, Closes 12th August

Round Six, People: Opens 13th August, Closes 9th September

Round Seven, Macro: Opens 10th September, Closes 7th October

Round Eight, Dusk to Dawn: Opens 8th October, Closes 4th November

Round Nine, Travel: Opens 5th November, Closes 2nd December

Round Ten, Open (anything goes!): Opens 3rd December, Closes 31st December

All dates 2024.

Featured image clockwise starting top left – Andy Fowlie, Daniel Sands, Daniel Callejo, Giles Thurston, Sue Woodbridge