Irish Environmental Network announce the winners of Biodiversity Photography Competitions
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The Irish Environmental Network today held a prize-giving event and launch of their photography exhibition of the Biodiversity Photographer of the Year Competition. With support from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, these photography competitions invited amateur photographers of all abilities to submit photographs of Ireland’s biodiversity. The photographs were taken on cameras or smartphones and coincided with Biodiversity Week, which took place with events across the country between the 14th and 22nd of May.
The competition Judge, Picture Editor and Staff Photographer with the Irish Times, Frank Miller, was present to announce the winners of the respective competitions – the Biodiversity Photographer of the Year and the Smartphone Snapper.
Speaking at the event, Mr Miller said: “As our lives become increasingly urbanised, digitised and virtualised we are in real danger of losing sight, literally of the world around us. And there is no better world to observe than the natural world. Losing sight of it is dangerous too as it diminishes the importance of nature, of ecology, of sustainability and creates the conceit that we can somehow overcome nature rather than working alongside it. This competition in its modest way helps raise awareness of nature and ecology and provides an outlet for photography of nature and ecology. Judging it was difficult because there were many quite beautiful images but in choosing the winners I was looking for something a bit extra which lifted them above the chocolate box view.”
Below are the winning photographs and Frank Miller’s comments on the photos.
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Special mention – I really liked ‘A sheep Farmer and his Flock’ by Mugdha Karmarkar , a nicely poised moment, well composed with two perfectly placed sheepdogs.[/x_slide][x_slide]
‘Home’ by Johnny Woodlock. Although the composition is by necessity somewhat messy this is an interesting picture of urban wildlife, with nature finding a home despite the ugly barbed wire protected environment. This took Third Place.[/x_slide][x_slide]
‘Thirsty Work’ – by Chris Howes – a very good image of a fox cub taking a drink, again excellent composition, a neat reflection and the eye contact with the camera really adds to it. Second Place.[/x_slide][x_slide]
The winner – ‘Riverdance’ by Pat Russell – a charming photo of Starlings enjoying a bath at a river’s edge – everything about the image is excellent including the composition and the detail and the different stances, but it’s made special by the bird on the right in full flick mode…a worthy winner.[/x_slide][x_slide]
Runner-up in the Smartphone Snapper Competition – ‘Eating out’ by Darran Rafferty[/x_slide][x_slide]
Runner-up in the Smartphone Snapper competition – ‘May Showers’ by Val Robus[/x_slide][x_slide]
The winner of the Smartphone Snapper competition was Emer Hyland with a neat picture of snails, sharp with good detail.[/x_slide][/x_slider][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]
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