Do you love our Mystery Photo feature? The Journal is teaming up with Radstock Museum to help create an archive for mystery photographs for people to look at in years to come. Thank you for your fantastic and creative entries so far!

The Journal and Radstock Museum will be running a photography competition which anyone can enter. But remember, these photographs could be viewed, potentially in one hundred (or more) years’ time, so they will need to be good!

We are looking for the best ‘Now’ photograph to go alongside our ‘Then’ Mystery Photograph – and there will be one for each week that the competition runs.

Here’s what you need to do:

• See our Mystery Photo of the week. Do you know where it is?

• If ‘yes’, go out and take the best photograph of the scene as it looks today, but remember to do this safely. You may find you cannot take the photo from the exact spot as the original, but the photographs have been checked, and there should still be a spot very near to the original place.

• We are not just looking for a snap of the scene today, but the best photograph you can possibly manage (it’s a photography competition!) – so be creative!

• Think about the lighting, angles and colours; try to make your photo as vibrant and dramatic as you can, while capturing that same scene. It could be early morning or evening for interesting light, or you could use the weather for drama!

• Email your entry to The Journal, clearly marked with your first name, surname, phone number and email address, so we can contact you should you win. Your details will be passed on to the museum, but not to any other parties. Sorry, we cannot accept any printed hard copies delivered by hand.

What happens next:

All of the entries will be judged by local photographer, Will Nicol, at the museum in late May, and one ‘Now’ photo winner will be selected for every ‘Then’ mystery photo published during the competition period.

Following the judging, all of the entries, whether you are a winner or not, will be displayed in an exhibition at the museum throughout the summer for you to come and see. Dates to be announced in The Journal.

The winners will be contacted and invited to the museum for a preview event of the exhibition, with free drinks and nibbles, and The Journal will take a group photograph of all of the winners at this event for a special feature.

The winners will have their ‘Now’ photos published alongside the Museum’s ‘Then’ photos, so readers can compare the scenes in the special feature. The winning entries will then be added to the museum archives, along with your name, for future generations to see how things looked locally in 2019!

Please be certain you are happy for your photograph to be published in The Journal, exhibited to the public, and then added to the museum’s archives with you named as the photographer before entering the competition. The museum will have the right to use your photograph for publicity purposes or on merchandise to raise funds for the museum, should they choose to do so.

Please note: There are no age categories for the competition – children are welcome to enter and will have their photographs displayed in the exhibition, but will be judged alongside the adults.

And, of course, if you are not a keen photographer, we’ll still be taking your guesses. But please get snapping and have a go!