In celebration of CJS 30th anniversary we are running a photo competition and we want your photos of you at work. There are prizes up for grabs and obviously the kudos of your photos being published with CJS. The categories are below: 

All in a day's work (A Ranger's life for me.)

For this we're looking for an image that shows something about everyday life working anywhere within the sector, although rangers are considered the main focus for CJS we do cover a much greater variety so it could be ecological surveying, tree surgery, rights of way surveying, horticulture, see the areas we cover here.

All four seasons / A job for all weathers

For this one we're looking for something that's representative of a typical day in one season. So this could be attempting to work whilst up to your ears in snow or at the other end of the scale dealing with a summer heatwave.

Green and blue spaces

The British countryside is so often pictured as the green sheep dotted hills beloved of period dramas and usually found in the National Parks but it's so much more than that. Countryside is not limited to those great open spaces, rolling countryside and green fields but also encompasses smaller pockets within the urban landscape, coast and rivers too. For this category we're looking for examples of working within these non-typical spaces.

All creatures great and small - wildlife and animals

Wildlife can be the major focus of a job or project or sometimes something encountered along the way; we want to see however you interact with any animals around you, examples could include working with wildlife in whatever form, from wildlife reintroduction projects to wildlife rescue and animal care. For this one we'll remind you of the making it a criminal offence to disturb or harm wild animals.

The next gen: Environmental education and interpretation

Sometimes the forgotten elements of rangering and of course specialist jobs in their own right. For this category we're looking for images that capture education and interpretation so that could be setting up your stall at the local fair or show or a captivated audience of children listening to instructions or already dashing off in search of fossils.

Unsung heroes

Who or what is that keeps your working life on the road - maybe literally - that ensures the project reaches completion, helps keep the site clean, the session is a success? Whatever or whoever that may be put them in the limelight and celebrate their hidden but vital input.

This could be your invaluable support staff, the vehicle that's seen you through rough terrain and provided a 'safe space', your amazing volunteer crew busy weeding the flowerbeds or litter picking in all weathers, the boots that have tramped many miles as you check rights of way or completing surveys, the team member who stays behind cutting lengths of string for the kite making event that's on tomorrow.

To enter all you need to do is send your photo (jpeg please) to [email protected] along with your name, which category it's for and we'd also like a little information about what the photo shows, captions for funny ones are especially welcome. And if you're a CJS Weekly reader don't forget to include your Membership number (or Group Access Username) for the chance to win another prize.

The competition closes on 31 August.

Find out more at https://www.countryside-jobs.com/Photo/