Over the course of the last 10 years the British Wildlife Photography Awards have done a wonderful job of showcasing some of the most extraordinary natural wonders of this island.
This year’s best entries are being shown off in an exhibition that will be touring the country , and have also been collected in a book available via www.bwpawards.org, priced at £25 inc p&p . It’s a beautiful volume, and full of information about how these glrorious images were captured.
Entries are have now opened for the 2019 competition – if you think you’ve taken a picture of Britain which can stand tall in this sort of company, see here for details on how to enter and the wide range of different categories .
Collision Course by Philip Selby, taken on a lake in Wiltshire ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
A roe deer in a sea of plastic, taken near Truro by Roy Curtis ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Ben Hall’s mountain hare in full sprint in the Peak District ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Chas Moonie’s ‘Eye Contact’ in the Galloway Forest, South Ayrshire, Scotland ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Robin Morrison took this combine harvester image ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
‘Mr Brock’ in Alan Seymour’s Surrey garden ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Josh Clark entered the young photographer category with ‘Mother’s Love’, taken on the River Stour, Dorset ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Christopher Swan’s Magpie in the Snow at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Neil McIntyre’s Spring Red squirrel on old caledonian pine tree. Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorms, Scotland ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
A kingfisher on the River Ayr, taken by Ian Todd ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Spectacular Isolation in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. © Andrew Parkinson / 2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Country Life’s cover image on December 5: ‘Sunset and the Hare’ taken by Kevin Morgans in the Cairngorms ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Dancing on the ceiling by Allen Holmes captures a group of harvestmen on the underside of a gate rail ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
Painted Lady butterfly in flight captured by Dr John H Brackenbury ©2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards
These images have been published from British Wildlife Photography Awards 9 published by Ammonite Press , RRP £25, Available online and from all good bookshops.
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Three Kings by Wim Van Den Heever, South Africa
Wim came across these king penguins on a beach in the Falkland Islands just as the sun was rising. They were caught up in a fascinating mating behaviour – the two males were constantly moving around the female using their flippers to fend the other off.
Credit: Wim Van Den Heever
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award is one of the highlights of the calendar for those