Enter the Old Vine Photography Competition : Vinography

Are you an novice, a budding skilled, or a significantly professional photographer who loves wine? Then you need to think about coming into the Old Vine Photography Competition.

Old vineyards possess any variety of virtues, which I’m comfortable to extoll at each alternative, however past their cultural, historic, agronomical, and oenological worth, they’re additionally simply rattling lovely. Old vines are sculptural works of dwelling artwork, and make lovely topics for images.

This competitors is run by the Old Vine Conference group, which exists to evangelize and help old-vine wines around the globe. They are accepting submissions by means of May 5, 2026.

Photographs might be entered into considered one of 4 classes: Landscape & Plants, People, Cultural Legacy, and Resilience & Adaptation.

The grand prize winner will get a free go to one of many Old Vine Conference’s discipline journeys across the globe and £500 in direction of journey prices to get there. Category winners will obtain a lifetime membership to the Old Vine Conference group and a case of outdated vine wine, amongst different issues.

You can discover all of the details about the competition on the OVC website. Each entry prices £20, and as much as 4 photographs might be entered per particular person.

It would possibly go with out saying, however regardless, the photographs in query should characteristic outdated vines—vineyards which might be greater than 35 years outdated. Beyond that, something goes.

If you are taking photos of outdated vines, would possibly I recommend you additionally think about making a picture obtainable to the Old Vine Registry on the identical time, particularly if the winery is just not but registered in our database, or doesn’t but have a picture related to it. Contact me for more information or directions if you happen to want them.

Happy snapping!