Step 1

Read the rules and consider the categories.

Step 2

Prepare your entry. You can enter as many categories as you like, and you can enter as many images as you like. Each entry should be a JPG image of not more than 1024 pixels on the longest side, and not more than 1 Mb in file size.

Step 3

Sign up to the site. You'll be asked for your contact details (so we can notify you if you win), and you can choose your own password. Once you've registered you can log in to your own private area on the site where you can upload your entry.

Step 4

Once you've uploaded your entry you'll need to pay the entry fee. This is either £15 for a single image, or £25 for up to three images, or £40 for up to six images. The entry fee can be paid by credit or debit card using PayPal, and your entry fee goes to The Lavender Trust to support younger people with breast cancer.

Step 5

Sit back and watch your pictures appear in the online gallery.

Prize money

There are lots of opportunities to win something. The overall winner of the competition will receive the Renaissance Prize of £3,000. The winner in each category will receive the category prize of £500, and the best entry on film will win £1,000 of camera equipment. Winners and highly-commended entries will receive a free double ticket to the Private View. All prizes are available in US Dollars for international entrants (currency conversion at prevailing rates).

Exhibition

And for 100 finalists, there is an additional benefit of getting real exposure with a week long exhibition in a leading London gallery where your work will be sold. You'll even get a share of the proceeds.

Nothing. You keep copyright of all your work, and get a nice warm glow from knowing your entry fee will be used to support younger people with breast cancer.

The competition opens at 10 a.m. GMT on the 5 December 2011. It closes at 10 p.m. GMT on the 4 March 2012. Winning finalists will be exhibited at a Private View in June 2012 at Mall Galleries, London.