TO celebrate Dartmoor National Park's 60th anniversary, the park authority has launched an online photography competition with some great prizes and a special under 18s category.

Visitors and residents are being encouraged to get out and capture the essence of Dartmoor on camera — its natural beauty, distinctive wildlife or cultural heritage.

Jackie Ridley, promotion and development officer for Dartmoor National Park Authority (DNPA), said: 'If you have a photo which you feel really captures the special qualities of the national park, then we would love to see it.

'By the end of the competition we should have an amazing online gallery of images, which celebrate what Dartmoor National Park means to people.'

There are great prizes available to entrants of the competition, including a landscape photography workshop with Devon-based landscape photographer Adrian Oakes, a large canvas wrap of one of the entrants photos provided by South West Colour Laboratories and a £60 voucher to use at Mifsuds Photographic Shop.

There is also a special under 18s category, offering a prize of a large canvas wrap.

Anyone who is inspired to grab their camera and wants to find out more about the competition can visit http://www.dartmoor.npa.gov">www.dartmoor.npa.gov.

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