The Scottish Seabird Centre's Nature Photography Exhibition

sponsored by the Gosling Foundation, SAS Radisson Hotels
and Bernard Massard Wines

Applications for the 2008 Nature Photography Competition are now available to download, or by email at info@seabird.org or by calling +44 (0)1620 890202. The closing date for entries is 31st October 2008, with the exhibition of shortlisted entries opening at the Seabird Centre in November 2008.

The winning photographs and the winners, judges and sponsors photographed during last year's awards ceremony and exhibition at the Radisson Hotel, Edinburgh, are featured at Winners 2007. The competition features categories for wildlife and landscape photography and is open to both adult and junior amateur photographers. It has quickly grown in size and reputation and attracted 200 entries in 2007, across four categories, including a new category for “Creative Visions of Nature”. The judging panel is headed up by wildlife photographer and several times winner and judge of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, Laurie Campbell and prizes include a day's coaching with wildlife photographer Laurie Campbell and landscape photographer Graham Riddell and a photographic boat trip to the Bass Rock.

Tom Brock OBE, Chief Executive of the Scottish Seabird Centre comments, “The Scottish Seabird Centre is a charity which is dedicated to inspiring people to get closer to, and care more for, wildlife and the natural environment. This competition, therefore, is a natural progression for us, encouraging people to get close to nature through the eye of their own camera lens.” The judges' remit was to look for an artistic and innovative approach to what people might find in their own back garden, not just a rare wildlife spectacle that only a fortunate few could ever experience! The image chosen to symbolise the competition is a simple dandelion puff silhouetted against the sun (pictured)."