In Association with The Scotsman
The competition is organised by the Friends of RBGE in association with The Scotsman and entry fees go to support the work of RBGE.
Launch date 5 December 2011 - Closing date 31 May 2012
Competition categories 
The Competition is open to all. Photos must be taken in one of the four Gardens – Edinburgh, Dawyck in the Borders, Benmore in Argyll or Logan in Dumfries and Galloway. Categories are as follows:
Garden View
A landscape taken in any of the four Gardens. Note: images should not feature any identifiable people.
Plant Portrait
A plant (tree, shrub or flower) either singly or in a group of the same plant, or a close-up, taken in any of the four Gardens.
Wildlife in the Garden
Animals, insects or birds taken in any of the four Gardens.
Competition prizes
Prizes include spending a day in the Garden with RBGE's professional photographer, winning photographs being published in The Scotsman and in The Botanics magazine and a digital camera.
Conditions of Entry
Entry forms will be accepted from 5 December 2011 until the closing date for the competition which is 31 May 2012. Winners will be notified in July and prizes presented at an event (date to be confirmed) in Edinburgh. Winning photos will be exhibited at each of the four Gardens in turn.
- Competition is open to all amateur and professional photographers.
- Prints and digital images will be accepted from any type of film or digital cameras. Prints must be printed on an A4 page and unmounted. Digital image entries must be less than 10MB.
- Up to three photographs may be submitted for the entry fee of £10 and more may be submitted for £2 for each additional photo.
- Prints: the back of each print must carry the name, address, telephone and email address of the entrant, the category for which the photo is entered, and the Garden in which it was taken. The (preferably Latin) name of featured plants(s) must be given for entries to Category 2 Prints should be posted, with completed entry form and fee, to Photography Competition, Membership Office, RBGE, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR.
- Digital images: should be e-mailed to photocomp@rbge.org.uk with a completed entry form attached. Please put your name as the subject of the email. The entry fee for digital entries should be posted, with a downloaded entry form, to the Membership Office as above.
- Copyright of images will remain with the photographer, but RBGE and The Scotsman claim the right to exhibit the entries and to use them in publicity material to promote the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and/or its photography competition. For this purpose RBGE claims the right to edit or use images in combination with others.
- We regret that prints cannot be returned.
- The winners will be chosen by judges appointed by RBGE. The judges' decision is final.
- Photos must be the original work of the entrant and taken at one of the four Gardens of RBGE within the last year. Care must be taken not to damage plants or RBGE property in taking the photos. We would ask that tripods are not used in the rock garden.
Download 2012 Entry Form
Photos top to bottom by Mark Clancy, Dave Gifford, Clive Davies
For further information please contact us: photocomp@rbge.org.uk