PEEBLES Arts Festival is running a photo competition with the theme “Peebles People - A Portrait”. Individuals or groups, outdoors or inside, at home or work, down the street, in the garden, day or night: whatever takes your fancy!

Enter your photo and be in with a chance to win one of our fabulous cash prizes, the competition is kindly sponsored by OutSphere (www.outsphere.co.uk) who will donate the cash prizes.

Entry is free for under 16s and £10 for 16+. For under 16 the first prize is £30; second prize is £20 and third prize is £10. For 16+ the first prize is £75; second prize is £40 and third prize is £20.

Please enter in a format suitable for A4 and preferably portrait, rather than landscape.

All entries will be professionally printed on 3mm mount card in A4 by the Arts Festival, for you to keep after the competition, and they will be exhibited in the Eastgate Café during the Festival week.

The competition judges are Neil Shaw, a well-known local photographer exhibiting during the Festival in the Eastgate Studio, and Stephen Mathison from the Peebles Camera Club. The Camera Club is also holding a walking photo workshop during the festival.

Send your entries to info@peeblesartsfestival.org or post/deliver to The Bridge, School Brae, Peebles EH45 8AL.

Please use jpeg format (min 300dpi) and we prefer portrait mode. We will also accept photo paper entries for those not yet digital.

Mark your entry Peebles People, and give the digital file an appropriate file name.

Include name, address, contact phone number, the age group you are entering, age if under 16, and the fee of £10 if 16 and over. Cheques are payable to Peebles Arts Festival. Emailed entries must pay the fee at The Bridge, School Brae, Peebles. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded at an event at the end of the Festival week. Entry is open now until August 15.

For more information log on to the following website: www.peeblesartsfestival.org.