{"id":1633,"date":"2010-05-04T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T11:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:11:48","slug":"4th-nature-photography-competition-open-for-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/4th-nature-photography-competition-open-for-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Nature Photography Competition open for entries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Martina Cross - Berriedale - 2009 3rd Prize winner<\/p><\/div> Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) wants to find out what moves people about their photos of Scotland’s spectacular nature.<\/p>\n

The fourth annual Nature Photography Competition is now underway, looking for pictures showing-casing animals, plants or landscapes across Scotland. This free contest is run by SNH and celebrates Scottish Biodiversity Week, which runs from 15 to 23 May.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Emotions\u2019. The contest aims to find out more about what nature and biodiversity mean to people in Scotland. Examples of biodiversity are all around us – from earthworms to golden eagles, from the smallest blade of grass to the tallest tree, and from the flowers in the window box in a Scottish city to the vast Cairngorm plateau.<\/p>\n

First prize is a day with professional photographer, Lorne Gill; second prize is a fantastic SLR camera; and the third prize is the book, Photographing Nature, a photo workshop book from the Brooke Institutes\u2019 top nature photography instructor.<\/p>\n

This year, the top 30 images will be exhibited during the Edinburgh
\nInternational Fringe Festival. The exhibition will also tour key venues in Scotland during autumn and winter 2010 and throughout 2011.<\/p>\n

Scottish Biodiversity Week organiser, Zeshan Akhter, said: \u201cMany of us have had those magical moments when we\u2019ve captured something spectacular in Scotland\u2019s countryside; I think these

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Gordon Rae - Between Day and Night - 2009 1st prize winner<\/p><\/div> images may mean even more to us nowadays, as they remind us why nature and biodiversity are so important to us still, despite many of us feeling more and more disconnected from nature.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s that special place we love to go or the time we had a chance glimpse of a wild animal, these moments remind us that we live within nature, not separate from it. We want to know what these moments have meant to people around Scotland and why they treasure them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entrants should email their pictures of animals, plants or landscapes to bit@snh.gov.uk by 31 July 2010 as an attachment with \u201cPhoto Contest\u201d in the subject line. Entries must be original, have a title, information on how the image moved the entrant, where in Scotland the photo was taken, and the entrant\u2019s name and contact details. Up to two entries per person may be submitted. Winners will be notified in August and the winning entries will be posted on the website and highlighted in the Scottish Biodiversity Forum\u2019s quarterly newsletter. For more information, see www.snh.gov.uk\/biodiversityweek<\/a>.

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Derek McGinn - Winter Visitors - 2009 2nd prize winner<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) wants to find out what moves people about their photos of Scotland’s spectacular nature. The fourth annual Nature Photography Competition is now underway, looking for pictures showing-casing animals, plants or landscapes across Scotland. This free contest is run by SNH and celebrates Scottish Biodiversity Week, which runs from 15 to 23 May. This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Emotions\u2019. The contest aims to find out more about what nature and biodiversity mean to people in Scotland. Examples of biodiversity are all around us – from earthworms to golden eagles, from the smallest blade of grass to the tallest…<\/span> <\/p>\n

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