Summary
The 2007 Tree Calendar competition has had over 50 photographs submitted which can be viewed in the
photo gallery|. The competition officially closed on the 15 July 2006 having run for 12 months. Photographs will be judged in the first two weeks of August 2006 and prizes will be awarded to the winning photographs in Autumn 2006.
The competition also encouraged the submission of
poems| and a selection of these will be chosen for the calendar, with winning entries being awarded prizes also in Autumn 2006.
Buy the tree calendar
As we are now into 2007, the price of the Tree Calendar has been reduced from £3.95 to £2.50. They are for sale at all the outlets below until the end of February. A real bargain!
They are available from the following outlets:
Cashier’s desk at the Council offices, Wigston Records Office, Long Street, Wigston Neville Chadwick Photography, Long Street, Wigston, Brocks Hill Country Park, Oadby, Oadby library and Wigston library.
All photographs and poems have been produced by residents and school-children in the Borough.
Money raised from the sales of the calendars will form an Environmental Grant Fund for habitat creation and management.
The Tree Calendar Competition
Trees are a fundamental part of the landscape whether you live in an urban area or a rural area and often we take them for granted. They can be of significance in many ways; spiritual, aesthetic, functional and also of importance to nature conservation and biodiversity.
The project was devised to pilot the use of photography and poetry as a means of giving the general public a new perspective on the importance of trees within an urban and rural landscape.
The Tree Calendar Competition was launched in July 2006 for twelve months, the idea being to raise awareness about the value of trees and encourage residents to go out and about with a camera to capture the essence of a particular tree or group of trees. These trees could be in their immediate neighbourhood, garden, open space or in the landscape viewed from public rights of way. Schools have also been encouraged to take part and submit photographs.
A photographer ran a series of photographic workshops with a year group at Thythorne Field Primary School in Wigston to engender interest in the project. Langmoor Primary, Brookside Primary and Thythorne Primary have all submitted photographs for the competition.