Belfast Zoo exposes winners of 34th annual photography competition!

The winners of Belfast Zoo's annual photographic competition have now been selected.
Category C Best black and white picture. 2nd prize - Western lowland gorilla by Fiona BeattieCategory C Best black and white picture. 2nd prize - Western lowland gorilla by Fiona Beattie
Category C Best black and white picture. 2nd prize - Western lowland gorilla by Fiona Beattie

The competition, which has been running for 34 years, is sponsored by HB and challenges budding and amateur photographers to creatively photograph the animals and scenes of the zoo; capturing the wonder of nature while exhibiting photographic excellence, high quality skills and a great eye for a ‘zooper’ photo!

CLICK THE LINK FOR FULL SCREEN IMAGESZoo manager and competition judge, Alyn Cairns, said “Despite the fact that the competition has been running for more than 30 years, we are always stunned by the standard of the submissions, as well as the quality and skill demonstrated by entrants.

Having moved the competition into an online and digital platform this year, we have received almost double the amount of submissions with more than 650 entries! The photographs certainly highlighted the beauty and diversity of the species that we care for.

This year we even introduced a new category to challenge visitors to get some snaps of our most endangered primates. We were astounded by the number of species represented in the competition from the tiny pygmy marmoset to Tina the elephant!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsor, HB, for their continued support of the competition. I would also like to praise the efforts of everyone who entered the competition this year, as well as our winners.”