Off-site peatland interpretation: photographic competitions
Case study
Lough Boora Photographic Competition
Photographic competitions provide a useful way of engaging communities with their peatland heritage. The wider community can be reached by encouraging amateur photographers to visit and record the site. The photographs can then be presented to the wider public through the press and exhibitions.
The Lough Boora Parklands area offers huge potential to photographers. The annual Lough Boora Photographic Competition has a prize fund of €1,000 and is open to young and old amateur photographers.
The competition encourages the progress of photography and raises public awareness of the Lough Boora Parklands Project by capturing the unique and fascinating beauty in the area. The judges look for entries that are innovative and consider picture content, originality, composition and use of lighting. Each year the competition has a theme. In 2005 the theme was Human Activity in the Lough Boora Parklands Area.
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