But with a difference!

As many of our readers will be aware we have held an online Photographic Competition in years gone by as part of the West Coast Eisteddfod. This year we are pleased and proud to announce that we are doing something a little different. In conjunction with our partners at Focalview we bring you the Americymru Focal View International Photographic Competition. The differences?

• You do not need to register with AmeriCymru in order to submit ( although we hope you'll consider joining )

• The competition will be judged by an international panel of eight professional judges.

• The winning submission will be used to illustrate the front cover of issue two of eto , our bi-annual anthology of Welsh fiction due for publication in September.

SO you have approximately 5 weeks to enter....for submission details see below. The winner will be announced both here and on the Focalview website in early September. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our contestants pob lwc/best of luck in the competition.

The Americymru Focal View International Photographic Competition is a joint salon which coincides with the West Coast Eisteddfod, offering writers and poets the opportunity to add creative images to their contributions and for photographers in Wales and elsewhere opportunity to offer images to illustrate contributions to the Eisteddfod.
The competition is free and open to all. The first two month cycle prizes include your image as the front cover of the next edition of ETO due to be published in September. The images are assessed by an international panel of eight professional judges as well as our 'open judging panel'.
Visit http://www.focalview.co.uk/ to register for the Judging Panel and to accept our free book ' A Story of a Judgment' which explains how images are assessed in competition.
Visit http://www.focalview.co.uk/americymru international.html to enter the Americymru Focal View International Competition

Also check out the The Focal View Photographic Course details below :-

Writers and Photographers in Collaboration ; ETO and Creative Photography
Photographic illustration of contemporary writing and poetry brings like-minded people together to present shared stories. The Focal View Photographic Course uses ETO as required reading to teach the techniques and skills for illustrative imagery. Focal View are now publishing a new range of tutorial guides used in the course and also for sale separately as advice material for the competition themes.
These are the Perspectives On ..... series. The first is based on an ETO story and gives you ideas for creative illustration. This eBook as well as the full version of ETO will be 'must-reads' for all contributors to the Americymru Focal View International Photographic Competition: http://www.focalview.co.uk/americymru international.html