Communication is the theme of this year’s Royal Society of Biology Photography Competition. Life on Earth is constantly communicating and this year we invite you to capture these interactions.

Your photograph could depict the sharing of information within and between different species, such as in the colouration of feathers, flowers and fur. You may want to focus on the messages portrayed in courtship behaviour or territorial displays.

Your image could illustrate the signs and signals that help us understand the condition of ecosystems.

The competition also welcomes entries that explore this year’s theme at the molecular or cellular level, illustrating signalling and other processes only revealed to us with the aid of a microscope.

Entries must be digital images. Each entrant may submit a maximum of three images to the competition.

There is no entry fee.

Eligibility

Open worldwide to amateur (not professional) photographers. For the purposes of this competition, a professional photographer will be considered to be someone who makes more than half their annual income from photography-related work.

Prize

Photographer of the Year (18 and over) will receive 1,000 GBP. Young Photographer of the Year (under 18) will receive 500 GBP.