August’s Theme: Blackberry Way Entries this month were a wistful evocation of summer’s end and local trails in and around Burton. Congratulations to the winners. Winner: Lee Jane Hawkes with Take me Home, Country Road Runners-up
This month’s theme: Blackberry Way If you watched the Commonwealth Games’ closing ceremony, you may well have been struck by how many artists past and present hail from Birmingham. However, not every chart-topper made it into their roll-call. Here to make right the Games’ organisers’ omission, this month’s theme is Read more…
July’s theme: Summer Nights Entries to this month’s theme included sundowners, nightstalkers, twilight tableaux and crepuscular critters. Winner: Sara Thorman Runners up
This competition has closed. What is the calendar competition? The Burton and Nettleton calendar competition started just last year and proved hugely popular. Entries to the competition vie for a place in the 2023 calendar. The competition is open to residents of Burton and Nettleton to submit their best landscape Read more…
This month’s theme: Summer Nights Well-a, well-a, well-a, it is here, it is here, British Summer is here! With it comes long, hot summer evenings, perfect for spotting bats, dormice, badgers, owls, foxes, frogs and moths. Alternatively, just celebrate the drowsy timelessness of our local landscape, or a clear skyscape. Read more…
June’s theme: June is bustin’ out all over This month, the judge was hoping for free-wheelin’ colourful exuberance. And that is exactly what you came up with. Joint winners: Ann Wilson & Lee-Jane Hawkes For the first time ever, we have joint winners. These photos capture the essence of English Read more…
This month’s theme: June is bustin’ out all over Because it’s June… June! June!! June!!!! A month which prances all-singing, all-dancing into the calendar. Jazz-hands entries need only apply. June is bustin’ out all over The feelin’ is gettin’ so intense, That the young Virginia creepers Hev been huggin’ the Read more…
May’s theme: many rivers to cross This month, the judge was looking for different bodies of water. Instead, what we got were bodies in the water. Semantics aside, there is no denying the high quality of the photography. Winner: Mike Clark Runner-up: Ann Wilson Excluded
The theme: it’s in the trees! This month’s theme had many (tree-)stumped for ideas, nevertheless some excellent photos came through. Before we get to announcing the winner and runners-up, the credit for this month’s theme must go to the opening line of Hounds of Love by Kate Bush. The line Read more…
This month’s theme: many rivers to cross Just as Jimmy Cliff lamented in his powerful Jamaican soul classic, so we have many bodies of water in the Burton area. For rivers think brooks – take your pick between the Burton, Bybrook or Broadmead – plus springs, streams, bourns, lakes, ponds Read more…