Photography Competition

The Kendal Mountain Festival Photography Competition aims to showcase exceptional images from around the world, celebrating the unique power of a single photograph to inspire, challenge, and spark reflection.

We invite photographers to submit work that captures the spirit of adventure and the beauty of the natural world, through images that tell compelling visual stories.

Category winners will receive prizes provided by our partners, and their work will be featured at Kendal Mountain Festival. 

Thank you to our 2025 photography competition partners

2025 Best Action Shortlist

Presented by SportsShoes

Airtime - Leon Butler

Dropping in - James Vincent 

Ephemeral Pleasures - Tom McNally

Family Day Out - Peter Howarth

FLUID MOTION - Thomas Hearn

LAKELAND Fish & Chips - Tom Hoyle 

Land For Everyone - Pushing Glen Torridon - Hannah Bailey

Morning Glory - Neil Irwin

Rock and Roll - Jake Holland

The Cave - Julia Roger-Veyer

2025 Best Outdoor Landscape shortlist

Presented by SportsShoes

Approach Team Line - Julia Cassou

Beautiful Light (Scout Scar Aurora) - Jonny Gios

Bow Fiddle Rock – Moray Coast - Keith Partridge 

Dune - Julia Roger-Veyer

Edge Inversion - Tom McNally

Hunterwasser Haus - Rebecca Lowe

Larch isolated in a sea of mist - David Rippin

Spindrift Man - Graham Niven

Stokksnes Horse - Emily Barnard

The Perilous Pass - Nicholas Foley-O'Rourke

2025 Power of Calm Shortlist

Presented by GoodRays

Bothy Nights - Graham Niven

Emergence - David Rippin

Hyperspace - Scott Salt

Lady of the Lake - Jasper Abel

Lenticular over Blencathra - Nathan Savory

Morning Herdwick! - Giles Thurston

Silhouetted - Peter Howarth

Still Waters - Kate Done

Sunset Dip - Tom McNally

Swirral Edge - David Rippin

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