It might seem a little early to start thinking about our winter competition, but now is a great time to get your shots for any of the three categories.  They are Travel, Macro and Colour.

Obviously summer holidays give an opportunity to get great travel shots but, with the sunny weather, colour and macro are also ideal subjects.  Macro, for those not familiar with the term, could more simply be refered to as extreme close-ups, often taken using your macro lenses, camera macro settings or for those of you with interchangeable lens cameras, extension tubes.  The colour category is envisaged as the use of colour as the overriding factor in your photograph. It could be a vivid natural scene or abstract; there is plenty of scope for using your imagination here.

The competition will take place in December so go out and get some shots in the bag.