2025 Winners
Scottish Botanical category
Ken Crossan - Velvet Shanks
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Velvet Shanks
Ken said: "I am delighted to have received the Scottish Botanical category award. The image of the Velvet Shanks, its orange caps brightening up dark winter days, was captured in a policy woodland on Thrumster Estate in Caithness. Growing in clusters on decaying and dead broadleaved trees, particularly elm, this group was found on a dead horse chestnut tree which was felled a few weeks later. As the Caithness landscape is recognised especially for its coast and its blanket bog, the Flow Country, a landscape with few native trees, it is rewarding to highlight a less well-documented aspect of the environment."
2nd: Connor Hughes - Tropical Scotland
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Tropical Scotland
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Prevailing
Wendy Ball
Ken Crossan
Sandy Gilmour
Ben Jessop
Richard Mullen
George Robertson
Gavin Shand
Adele Warner-Tate
Allan Wright
Environmental category
Natural Abstract category
Scottish Botanical category
Scottish Landscape - The Land category
Scottish Landscape - Sea & Coast category
Scottish Landscape - Urban Greenspace category
Scottish Wildlife Behaviour category
Scottish Wildlife Portrait category
Junior category
Student category
Scottish Nature Video Award 2025