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Capture a Moment Photography Competition
We’re thrilled to announce the return of Cobalt’s Capture a Moment Photography Competition for 2025 running from April 1st – 31st July 2025.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a smartphone snapper, this is your chance to get out and about and showcase your talent, support a great cause, and win incredible prizes!
Entries cost just £2 per photograph and you can enter as many times as you like. Under 16 years enter for free.
Winning entries
Twelve winning images will be published in the Cobalt 2026 calendar, and framed prints will be exhibited and awarded to each winner. See the 2024 winners at the bottom of this page.
Competition proceeds
All proceeds from the competition and the calendar support a specialist cancer nurse for teenagers and young adults in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
How to enter
- Get out and about with your smartphone or camera and capture a moment
- Make a donation by clicking the ‘enter now’ button below
- Upload your photo or photos using our photo competition portal
- Win fantastic prizes
1st place
- A £300 Wex Photo Video voucher plus a framed print of the winning image
2nd place
- A one year subscription to Digital Photography magazine plus a framed print of the winning image
3rd place
- A £100 voucher for The Darkroom plus a framed print of the winning image
U16s winner
- £50 cash prize plus a framed print of the winning image
Important information
TYA Nurse
Terms and conditions
Meet our judges
Thank you to our sponsors
2024 winning entries
We are delighted to announce the winners of Cobalt’s 2024 Capture Moment Photography competition! Thank you to everyone who entered, there were many wonderful photographs. Buy your 2025 Cobalt calendar here.
Martin Fry
A Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Martin’s images have received over 500 awards in international exhibitions across 37 countries. He has been a panel member on the PAGB and RPS Distinctions and is a recipient of the RPS Dobson Henry Medal for Services to AV. A retired Gloucestershire Headteacher, Martin is an Honorary Life Member of Cheltenham Camera Club. A great deal of Martin's photography is inspired by the beauty of his native Gloucestershire and the spectacular Cornish landscape. An internationally recognised Judge, Martin is looking forward to seeing the work entered for this year’s calendar in support of this very deserving charity.
Sally Ryde
Sally has been a professional photographer for more than 15 years, photographing over 350 weddings of couples from a wide demographic of people and cultures. She began her photographic career entering many different photographic competitions like Cobalt’s ‘Capture A Moment’ and values the scope for creative advancement afforded by photographic competitions. Since retiring from the wedding industry, Sally has taken a different direction in her work, concentrating on photographing urban and rural landscapes, as well as working commercially photographing interiors for hotels and guest houses, and brand lifestyle commissions.
She is particularly passionate about black and white photography, and this, coupled with a love of Gloucestershire, has resulted in a large body of work capturing Cheltenham and the surrounding area in monochrome, and a published book ‘A Journey Through Gloucestershire’. She also has a particular interest in abstract photography and experiments with creative techniques such as ICM and multiple exposures, work from which she has exhibited in various galleries in the South West.
Dr. Umesh Udeshi
Dr. Umesh Udeshi is a Consultant Radiologist and the Medical Director at Cobalt Health. A lifelong photography enthusiast, he developed an early passion for the craft, learning darkroom processing as a teenager and using SLR cameras, both film and digital, over the years. These days, he embraces the convenience of the iPhone for most of his photography.
On being invited to judge Cobalt’s annual photo competition, he says, “It is an honour to be asked, and I am looking forward to it.”
