Be Part Of The Big Picture...

Here's one for all you budding photographers out there, it's a new project called The Big Picture of Natural Britain and you can be a part of it.

Run by an organisation called Living Art, which is a web-based, not-fot-profit group, the idea is to bring artists, photographers and the public together to produce and promote work inspired by nature.

The Big Picture is intended to be the first 'online portrait' of our natural heritage in the form of a public work of art, a giant aerial map of Great Britain made up of a mosaic of natural images which will be printed onto a giant panel and displayed at venues across the UK.

There should be several of the panels and the map will also be shown online and be available as posters and framed prints.

So where do you come in? Living Art is inviting members of the public to submit images taken from anywhere in the UK. Subjects can be landscape, flora or fauna or people enjoying the landscape. The images will be placed in the relevant area of the map.

All you need to do to get involved is go to www.living-art.org.uk and follow the relevant link to register and contribute images.

Contributors will get a free mini site for their images and, at the end of the project, a free print.

All profits from the sale of promotional products go to UK wildlife trusts, so you're not being ruthlessly exploited.

We know from the OM Gallery that there are some lovely images out there, so why not get involved in what looks like a fascinating and unusual project?