PeakShot runs seasonal photography competitions on supported UK mountain routes. Season 1 is a single eight-week beta season (“Beta Season · Late Summer 2026”) with four categories: Sunset, Sunrise, Waterfalls and Landscape. During the beta there are no prizes with monetary value — recognition, scores, badges and leaderboard places only.

• You must be 18 or over. You confirm this at signup.
• The beta is open to United Kingdom residents only, and all supported routes are in the UK.
• One account per person. Accounts are personal to you.

An entry can only be created inside the app, on the hill, from an armed Photo Zone:

• You must start the walk in the app at the route’s start point and reach the zone on foot during that walk.
• When a zone arms and you start a shoot, you have a set shot window to capture up to three frames using the in-app camera only. One shoot session per zone per walk.
• You pick your best frame from the shoot to submit. Photos captured offline queue on your device and sync when you regain signal — they remain valid entries.
• Uploads from your camera roll, gallery, or any other source are never accepted. There is no exception to this rule.

Each photo may be entered once, into exactly one category. You choose the category at submission. A photo cannot be entered into a later season or moved between categories after the competition closes.

Every entry is scored by AI against the zone’s photographic brief, on a fixed published rubric: composition (30), light and atmosphere (25), technical quality (20), fit to the zone brief (15) and distinctiveness (10). Every entrant receives their scores plus short written feedback.

The AI ranking decides the podium, and every podium result is audited by a human before winners are announced. Entries flagged by the integrity checks (for example suspected screen photographs or AI-generated images) go to human review and are not eligible until cleared.

Alongside the AI-judged podium, the community votes for a separate People’s Choice award. Voting is blind and pairwise: you are shown two anonymised entries and pick the stronger. You can never vote on your own entries, daily voting is capped, and vote-rate limits apply. Entries stay anonymised in public galleries until the season closes.

An entry may be disqualified, and in serious or repeated cases an account suspended or closed, on any of these grounds:

• Verification failure — the capture record (capture-time hash, timestamps, GPS fixes, walk track) does not stand up to checking.
• Gallery injection — any attempt to submit an image that was not captured with the in-app camera inside the zone during the shot window.
• Location falsification — spoofed or manipulated GPS, or any other misrepresentation of where you were.
• Abusive content — entries or account content that is abusive, unlawful, or otherwise unacceptable for a public gallery.

Entries may be held out of galleries while a review is in progress. Attempting to discover, extract or publish Photo Zone locations is a fair-play breach — the zones are hidden by design.

If you believe your entry was scored or disqualified wrongly, you can request a re-judge from your entry page. A re-judge means a fresh, independent scoring run plus human review of the outcome and of any integrity flags. The re-judged result replaces the original and is final for that season.

You keep the copyright in every photo you take. By entering a photo you grant PeakShot a non-exclusive licence to store it, process it for judging and verification, and display it for competition purposes — galleries, results, leaderboards and coverage of the competition itself. Public copies are stripped of embedded location data, and gallery entries are anonymised until the season closes. This licence does not let us sell your photo or use it outside the competition.

No rule on this page ever requires you to take a risk. A shot window you walk away from because of ground, weather or fatigue is the correct decision every time. See the Terms of Use and the Fell Pledge: the mountain decides.