Winner

The winner will receive an individual engraved glass award, a £50 cash prize and a copy of the Portfolio Yearbook 2024.

The winner will be featured in the Portfolio Yearbook 2024 and the Touring Exhibition in 2025.

RON McCOMBE WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER is sponsoring a Woodland Bird Hide session near Hawick in the Scottish Borders.

The hide seats four people, and plates are fitted to take tripod heads or beanbags are available if required. The wheelchair accessible hide is heated and toilet facilities are available.

The birds are 12 – 16 feet from the camera on multiple setups including a reflection pool. Some of the birds visiting include the great spotted woodpecker, nuthatch, Eurasian jay, treecreeper, common redpoll, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, long-tailed tit (in winter), dunnock, goldfinch, robin, pheasant, collared dove, occasionally sparrowhawk, occasionally spotted flycatcher, blackbird, tree sparrow, the house sparrow, brambling and grey wagtail.

We will be looking at exposure and exposure compensation, the use of shutter speed and ISO setting in relation to shutter speeds and aperture settings along with white balance setting and the use of Kelvin.

The birds are very close and exceptionally good images can be expected with great backgrounds.

The prize is valid from April 2025 to March 2026.

www.wildlife-photography.uk.com

GICLÉE UK LTD. is sponsoring a 30" x 20" Giclée print of the winning image.

The aim at Giclée UK is simple: to provide the best Fine Art prints at the most favourable prices. Recent clients have included the National Galleries of Scotland, the Demarco European Art Foundation and individual artists too numerous to mention.

www.gicleeuk.com

Runners-up

2nd place runner-up will receive a £30 National Book Token, kindly sponsored by BERYL MCKENZIE.

2nd & 3rd place runners-up will receive a Prize Certificate and a copy of the Portfolio Yearbook 2024.
2nd & 3rd place runners-up will be featured in the Portfolio Yearbook 2024 and the Touring Exhibition in 2025.

Images in the final shortlist will be included in the Portfolio Yearbook 2024.


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