Plantlife 2008 Photographic Competition

Congratulations to the winners !!

Almost 500 images were received from across the UK as entries for Plantlife’s first photographic competition in 2008. A big thank you to all those who sent in images - Plantlife members and non-members alike, and sorry if yours was not one of the winners this time.

As well as one overall winner, the aim was to choose images from across the four seasons to appear in a 2009 Plantlife calendar.

The judges were Bob Gibbons of Natural Image, a professional nature and wildlife photographer, Plantlife Chairman Roger Crofts and Plantlife’s Chief Executive Victoria Chester.

Congratulations to the overall winner

Reginald Poad from Camborne in Cornwall was the overall winner for his photograph of this beautiful Porcelain Fungus, and he receives £300 in vouchers for a photographic shop as his prize. Two of the other images he submitted were also in the top twelve (see below), so many congratulations to him!

Well done to the other winning photographers

The eleven other winning images and the photographers who captured them, are listed below. Congratulations to all our winners, in particular to Sheila Curzon who also had three images in the top twelve (see left for the image that will be featured as the October page in the calendar).

All twelve winning images are featured in Plantlife's 2009 calendar, which is being sold in aid of Plantlife's conservation work (to buy a calendar, please click here).

The other winning images and photographers are:

• Snowdrops - Linda Tillotson
• Snow on Prunus blossom - Marysia Kay
• Wood Anemone - Tracy Hallett
• Oxlip - Edwina Beaumont
• Bluebells - Danny Beath
• Gorse - Sheila Curzon
• Poppies and Corn Marigolds - Reginald Poad
• Water Avens - Sheila Curzon
• Magpie Inkcap - Reginald Poad
• Leaf on Bracken - Sheila Curzon
• Reeds - Bryan Bowles

Please do continue taking pictures of our wild plants and fungi all around the UK, particularly over the winter.

We received many more images of plants in summer than plants in winter time, so for any future photo competitions, we will always be looking for evocative wintry pictures.

We are also always grateful of images of wild plants and issues affected with their conservation to add to our photo library - if you have images that you would be happy for us to use in Plantlife publications, magazines and on our website (in return for full crediting of those images), please do contact us by clicking here and letting us know.