BWPA 2019 Winners

September 20, 2019

British Wildlife Photography Awards 2019 Winners Announced

Although Britain is small in size, it has a whole host of birds, mammals, marine life, and more. The BWPA celebrates our wide variety species and showcases some of the most beautiful imagery. The competition is celebrating its tenth year and the standard just keeps getting better and better.

Both professional and amateur photographers are invited to showcase their images of British wildlife and the judges have the really difficult task of sifting through thousands of fabulous images to award fifteen separate category winners, including two junior categories.

To honour the tenth anniversary, the BWPA focused on British coasts by expanding the Coast and Marine category to include four separate categories.

“Our island nation has an impressive 31,368 kilometres of coastline. We are surrounded by some of the richest seas in the world, teeming with an astonishing abundance and diversity of marine wildlife,” said judge Mark Carwardine. “But we do a shockingly bad job of looking after them. We take out far too many fish and shellfish, often catching them in destructive ways that have devastating impacts on other wildlife, and we use the seas as a dumping ground for an insidious tide of plastic waste and all sorts of other pollution.”

Daniel Trim was this year’s overall competition winner, with his image “Behind Bars” and depicts an urban grey heron in Londons waterways. ’Grey herons thrive around London’s wilder waterways, but they also do well in more urban settings such as the smaller parks and canals, despite the litter and large numbers of people walking by. This individual was hunting in the cover of a bridge – presumably the fish were taking shelter among the fallen leaves and plastic bottles. The morning light shining through a grill gives the impression that the bird is trapped as it gazes out through the mesh.’ (BWPA, 2019)