Belfast Zoo’s photographic competition winners announced
The competition challenges budding and amateur photographers to creatively capture the animals and scenes of the zoo. Winners were announced at the awards ceremony on Saturday, October 17 in the elephant and giraffe house.
Zoo manager, Mark Challis was impressed with this year’s competition.
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Hide Ad“The competition launched on April 14 and we received more than 350 entries. Even though the competition has been running for more than 30 years, we are always astounded by the quality and skill demonstrated each year.
“It is also wonderful to see which subjects the photographers have chosen for their submissions and the competition certainly highlights the beauty and diversity of the species that we care for, from tiny tamarins to the Asian elephants. I would like to thank everyone who took part in the competition and also congratulate our winner and all entrants on their ‘zooper’ photographs,” he said.
The prizewinners were divided into the following categories;
Category A - best picture taken by a club photographer
1st prize –Terry Hanna (overall winner of the competition)
2nd prize – Joe Beattie
3rd prize – Terry Hanna
Highly commended – Joe Beattie
Highly commended – Mark Gillan
Category B - best picture taken by a zoo visitor
1st prize – Bruce Marshall
2nd prize – Peter Morgan
3rd prize – Peter Morgan
Highly commended – Bruce Marshall
Highly commended – Aurimas Slavickis
Highly commended – Jude Rankin
Category C - best black and white picture
1st prize – Matthew Allen
2nd prize- Raymond Hughes
3rd prize – Phillip Hutton
Highly commended – Bruce Marshall
Highly commended – Phillip Hutton
Category D - best funny caption
1st prize – Alan Dodridge
Highly commended – Gemma Vennard
Highly commended – Bruce Marshall
Category E - best picture taken by someone under 16
1st prize – Fiona Beattie
Highly commended – Alexander Allen
Highly commended – Fiona Beattie
Category F - best adventurer picture
1st prize- Deirdre Corrigan
Highly commended – Wayne Gilmore
You can see all of the winning photographs from Belfast Zoo’s annual photographic competition 2015 at www.belfastzoo.co.uk/photocomp from today (Monday, October 19). Don’t forget to enter the 2016 competition.