• Photographer: Ezra Boulton
    Category: Portfolio - Winner 2021
    Title: A rat's home
    Description: I'd been photographing this rat and its family who live in a woodshed in my garden. When I took this photo I zoomed fully out so that you could see the rat in its habitat. I like that although the rat is small in the frame your eye is still drawn straight into it. Cornwall, UK.

  • Photographer: Ezra Boulton
    Category: Portfolio - Winner 2021
    Title: Rat between metals
    Description: I noticed this rat was using this path, so I left some grain there so that I could capture this unusual photo of this rat amongst all the old metal. As I waited the sun came through the leaves of a nearby tree, putting a spotlight on the rat's face. Cornwall, UK.

  • Photographer: Ezra Boulton
    Category: Portfolio - Winner 2021
    Title: Put your best paw forward
    Description: This young rat was poised with its relaxed paw for a brief moment coming out from a wood stack. I like the perspective of the rat amidst the upright pieces. Cornwall, UK.

  • Photographer: Ezra Boulton
    Category: Portfolio - Winner 2021
    Title: Rat in old car's tyre
    Description: I like how all the holes in the car tyre mirror the rat's eyes. The inner circle frames the rat's head and paws perfectly. Cornwall, UK.

  • Photographer: Ezra Boulton
    Category: Portfolio - Winner 2021
    Title: Rat portrait
    Description: I spent a long time gaining this rat's trust by slowly crawling towards it on my stomach. I got within a couple of metres of it before taking a photo. As I pointed my camera at it, it stared straight into the lens. The rat didn't seem fazed by me and carried on with its day like nothing had happened. Cornwall, UK.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Runner-up 2021
    Title: Golden haze
    Description: On a winter evening I had been standing in a freezing cold field in hopes of a barn owl appearing. Eventually it appeared and it passed by the setting sun which backlit the owl and created a golden haze.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Runner-up 2021
    Title: Golden wings
    Description: One morning I was watching a male tufted duck washing himself and with previous experience watching them I laid down and got ready to photograph it when it flapped its wings to shake off the water. When it did I captured it with his wings being illuminated by the golden light.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Runner-up 2021
    Title: Sunrise swan
    Description: As the sun rose a thin layer of mist covered the lake and I was down in the mud photographing waterfowl when one of the mute swans I regularly photograph started swimming towards me. I took the opportunity to get a shot of them with the golden light.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Runner-up 2021
    Title: Golden evening
    Description: One evening I came across two Roebucks and decided to try and photograph them despite knowing how skittish the ones down there were. In a weird turn of events though my presence did not disturb them and they walked past me. This one had the sun behind him when I took the shot capturing him with a golden haze.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Runner-up 2021
    Title: The sinking sun
    Description: After spending over an hour one evening in hopes of capturing a Barn owl, the sun began to set and started sinking down. I spotted a Skippers butterfly fluttering around which then perched on the end of some grass in front of sun and I composed the shot to get both the sun, and butterfly in.

  • Photographer: Joshua Myers
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Daisy
    Description: This image of my friends dog Daisy, it was nice to be out and about shooting images while catching up with my friend after the first long Covid-19 lockdown.

  • Photographer: Joshua Myers
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Happy Henry
    Description: Henry is my Grandad's dog, he looked amazing in the area of woodland that I chose to do this photoshoot in, he sat and posed for me like a model.

  • Photographer: Joshua Myers
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Pippi
    Description: I was given the amazing opportunity by a friend after the first Covid-19 Lockdown to photograph her beautiful little Puppy, I went with her to the local park where we did the photoshoot. Pippi behaved amazingly and was a pleasure to photograph.

  • Photographer: Joshua Myers
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Ozzie playing
    Description: This image was part of a very muddy photoshoot, on this shoot I was photographing two different dogs Ozzy and Barney who had lots of energy on a flooded field. Me and my equipment were covered in mud by the end of the shoot.

  • Photographer: Joshua Myers
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Barney standing proud
    Description: This image was part of a very muddy photoshoot, on this shoot I was photographing two different dogs Ozzy and Barney who had lots of energy on a flooded field. Me and my equipment were covered in mud by the end of the shoot.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Drying off
    Description: There were a lot coots swimming and feeding on the lake when I noticed one not too far away washing itself. I laid down on the edge next to the lake and started photographing it as it splashed about until it started to flap its wings to dry them off when it had finished.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Lunchtime
    Description: There were a family of coots looking for food not too far from the edge of the lake. I saw one of the young chicks swim up to its parents side and then stuck its head up to get a meal. The parent turned its head with food in their beak to feed it to their chick.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Run
    Description: Whilst photographing Coots I have noticed that they tend to be very aggressive and territorial. I laid down and watched out for Coots nearby that may start chasing one another and sure enough one broke out. The intruder sprinted across the water and I was able to get this shot.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Golden mist
    Description: At my local nature reserve one morning I had gotten down just before sunrise to photograph waterfowl when the sun rose. A layer of mist had covered the lake and I spotted a Coot swimming in my direction through it. I took the shot and was able to capture it with the golden mist.

  • Photographer: Ben Hancock-Smith
    Category: Portfolio - Commended 2021
    Title: Reflection
    Description: One morning at dawn, I was down at my local nature reserve photographing Coots. The water was fairly calm and still when I had one swim towards me with the sun behind it and almost had a full reflection.