Sportfish and Fish&Fly Catalogue Covershot Competition 2010

[Sofi]

This is your chance to shine!

If you are a keen photographer with an eye for capturing the best fishing moments this is the competition for you. Sportfish and Fish&Fly are offering one talented photographer a chance to have his/her photo featured on the front cover of the Sportfish catalogue (subject to Sportfish approval).

The lucky winner also receives a £100 gift voucher to spend at Sportfish.

The Sportfish catalogue comes out four times a year and is a tackle reference guide to anglers all over the world. The chance to have your work on the front cover is priceless!

We are looking for entries: Capturing that once in a lifetime fishing moment.

If you would like a sneak peak at the current Sportfish catalogue please click here to order your copy.

Please note that the original image must be high resolution and must be available in at least 6MB. To upload your photograph in the Fish&Fly Gallery, reduce A COPY of your image to max 100KB.

To upload your masterpiece, click here
You have to be a Fish & Fly member to submit your entry. Please click here to join for free.

Make sure you get your entry in before 13th September 2010 and who knows, it could be your photograph being printed on thousands of Sportfish brochures!

Click here for competition rules.

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Entrants may submit as many photos as they wish. Images must relate to fly fishing - images of dead fish will not be considered. Sportfish are seeking pin sharp high resolution images (over 6MB) portraying the wonder of flyfishing suitable for printing either in a landscape or portrait format.

Uploading your photo in the Fish&Fly Gallery is easy. You have to be signed in and click to enter the Fish&Fly Gallery. Click "Upload Photos" (on the right hand side). Click "Browse" to select the photo you wish to upload from your computer (max 100KB). Add a title for your photo and "Submit" your entry.

[Sofi]

Thank you to everyone who entered the Sportfish Cover shot Competition. We are now ready to announce the winner.

After scrutinising every single entry, Sportfish has chosen the "Loch Bornish, South Uist" photo entered by Cap'n Fishy as the winner. We here at Fish&Fly HQ agree that it is a wonderful choice and believe the way Cap'n Fishy capture the colours and movements of the trout is extraordinary.

Congratulations Cap'n Fishy, here is your winning entry:


Sportfish would like us to convey the following message:

''Sportfish are delighted with the very high standard of entries received for this competition and would like to thank everyone that took the trouble to take part. We would very much like to run this competition again next year so please start thinking about your entry now. The judges were really impressed with Cap'n Fishy's superb photo - it captures the spirit of the competition wonderfully. A great fishing picture - well done. A worthy winner''

Cap'n Fishy's entry will feature on one of Sportfish catalogue covers next year. We will make sure you are the first to know when it is going to print. A gift voucher for £100 is also on its way to you Cap'n Fishy.

Watch this space!

Sofi

PS: Make sure that you get that camera out of the cupboard and get snapping (on high quality setting of course) so you are ready for next year’s competition.

[Sofi]

I am sure that Cap'n Fishy's entry will look stunning on the front cover of the Sportfish catalogue. He is a worthy winner.

As we had such a great response to this competition and the quality of the entries where high we have decided to share some of our other favourites.

Click here to see Fish&Fly HQ's top 12 list:

Winner and Highly Commended Entries

Well done everybody!

Sofi

[Scratch]

Well done Col! Super image.

[stuartpengs]

Aye congratulations Col. Excellent shot and a worthy winner.

[silversedge]

Fantastic photo,the standard of the photography on here is outstanding.

[Simmo]

Well done Capt fishy great pic and a great moment.

[brownsville]

Congratulations Col, lovely shot.

[Cap'n Fishy]

Thanks for the comments lads. Well chuffed to have won among so many great entries. Well done to all.

I know the fellow photography anoraks like to get the details, so here they are...

Focusing: AF Servo
Shot in shutter priority: 1/1000s
Focal length: 105 mm
Aperture: f 4.5
Auto ISO: ISO 640
Exposure mode: centre-weighted average
Distance from subject: 3.4 m
Drive: hi-speed continuous (8fps)
Shot in RAW file format and processed in ACR 6

Col