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The South West Coast Path team is encouraging budding mobile phone photographers of all ages to capture a moment in time on the Coast Path as part of its Motographer of the Year 2013 competition.

It could be a shot of a couple resting a while to admire the view or a child collecting seashells – the only rule is that it is taken on a mobile phone and includes a person out on any stretch of the 630-mile South West Coast Path.

Among the judges is the award-winning travel and landscape photographer David Noton, who runs photography workshops on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, and award leader of BA Photography at Falmouth University, Deborah Baker, who has worked with artists including Mary Ellen Mark and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Says David Noton, whose work has long taken inspiration from the South West Coast Path: “The joy of being on the South West Coast Path can be enhanced with photography. The very process of trying to capture the experience to share with friends and family makes us look at what’s all around us on the cliff tops, headlands and in the coves with an analytical eye, noticing details and tricks of the light that maybe we wouldn’t without the stimulus of photography. A good picture is the product of a perceptive eye, so this competition is a great opportunity for anyone with a camera phone to get creative and share their unique vision of people experiencing the pleasures of the outdoor life on the South West Coast Path with the rest of the world.”

Deborah Baker adds:  “I am very supportive of this competition as mobile phone imagery contributes to all genres of the medium with incredible ease of use and remarkable technical quality. On our photography courses we feel that it is important to encourage a diversity of photographic practices. This is a wonderful opportunity for all to create stunning imagery in a location that's hard to beat anywhere in the world.”

The winner will receive an mini iPad worth £269

Mobile photographers are invited to submit their entries via Facebook by posting on the SWCP fan page and tagging the image #MOTY2013

 

Twitter users can submit their entries by addressing posts to @SWCoastPath and using #MOTY2013

 

All entries must be received by the deadline of September 30 2013 and the original picture must be saved to ensure high resolution versions can be sent to us by request if shortlisted.

 Submissions will be displayed on the South West Coast Path Team’s Pinterest board named MOTY2013.

 

Photographers who have their own blog can send us the link to any posts about their entries into the competition and we will share these on our Wordpress page www.ILoveSWCoast.com

To ensure we can get in touch if you are successful in being shortlisted for the top prize, please register your entry here .

Scan the QR code to register.

Nb- you don’t have to do this straight away or with every post – just once at some point before the deadline!