Window With A View Competition

Vote now for your region's best Window with a View!

Window With A View judges have now selected their favourites from all of our 2017 entries and regional voting is under way! To cast your vote, start by choosing your region above.

Window With A View is back!

After capturing the imagination of the UK’s photography and tourism fans in 2016, the Window with a View competition has returned for another year and we want YOU to enter.

2016 saw hundreds of entries from some of the country’s best-loved attractions, hotels, restaurants and beauty spots – including last year’s winner Museum of Liverpool, St Paul’s Cathedral, Blackpool Tower, Edinburgh Castle, The Shard, Titanic Belfast.

Back for a second year, Window with a View once again calls on anyone enjoying a spectacular view from a building open to the public to upload a photograph telling us why it’s so special.

Rules

The window must be framed: Whether it’s wood, steel, stone, bricks or plastic – the area surrounding the window must be included in the picture. By including the frame, your picture should be able to tell us something about the building – how old it is, where it’s located, or what it’s used for (or used to be used for!). Use the window frame to tell us a story. Photos taken through glass doors won’t be accepted.

There’s no need for glass: Believe it or not, a window doesn’t have to contain glass or Perspex to be classed as a window. ‘Window’ refers to an opening in a wall, roof or vehicle – so if your view isn’t through glass that doesn’t matter, as long as it’s framed.

The view must be spectacular: We’re looking for beautiful, unusual, interesting and surprising views which have the WOW factor. The more unique and eye-catching, the better. If there are people within your picture, they must be unidentifiable.

The building must be open to the public: When you take your picture, you must be in a location any member of the public could access. Whether it’s a pub in the middle of nowhere or the country’s busiest zoo – we want to share with the public the views they’re missing out on. (If you think the view from your house is pretty cool, follow us on Twitter [link to Twitter page] – we’ll be announcing details of another competition that’s right up your street soon!)

Multiple nominations: Think your favourite view deserves to win above any other in the country? Get your family and friends to nominate it too. If a view from an attraction receives multiple nominations it’s clearly very popular, so it’ll work in its favour! And remember, if you work at a building or attraction that is open to the public and want to nominate your own window with a view, you’re very welcome to!

Please don’t edit your photos: We want to see genuine images of windows with a view, so where possible refrain from entering images that have been filtered or edited. Your images can have people in them, but please try to make them non identifiable.