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Award-winning photography of natural history, landscape, antiquity and travel throughout the world. All images © Martin Grace
CATEGORY WINNER IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Award-Winning & Exhibited Images 2015 Onwards

 *** CATEGORY WINNER IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2019 ***

Welcome to my gallery of award-winning and exhibited images. Despite photographing seriously and successfully for many years, it was only late in 2015 that I decided to enter a few of the major national or international competitions for a bit of fun. Thus far I have entered just a couple of handfuls, most notably Bird Photographer of the Year. In 2016 I had one image shortlisted in this competition, and two shortlisted in 2017. In 2018 there were nearly 9,600 entries to BPOTY, but somehow I managed to have four shortlisted and nine commended. The final results were announced in August 2018, and I was delighted that my Planet Adelie One won the Bronze Award in the Creative Imagery category. I had four images shortlisted again in the 2019 competition, which received 13,500 entries from 63 countries. The results were announced at Birdfair on August 17 2019. One Emperor Penguin image (Fur Coats) was commended, and I was delighted that another, with its accompanying short piece of prose, won the Inspirational Encounters category. You can read the text on my blog titled Category Winner in BPOTY 2019! Also in 2019, one of my images made it through to final round of judging (equivalent, I guess, to shortlisting) in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Recently my young Chacma Baboon image reached the final round of judging in the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020, and is now a greetings card published by Camden Graphics. In the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016 four images of mine were shortlisted (one in each of four different categories) and after final judging one image was awarded Highly Commended in the Close to Nature category. I had three images shortlisted in the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016, and one in 2018. The judges of Landscape Photographer of the Year 2016 obviously did not like my rather off-the-wall take on landscapes, and I have not entered again! I have not entered any competitions since 2020.

Below are the award-winning images, together with those I have exhibited in Agora Gallery, New York. Please contact me if you would like to buy any of these images.

 

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Socially Uninhibited - a young Chacma Baboon (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) - Final round of judging in Comedy Wildlife Photogr...
Socially Uninhibited - a young Chacma Baboon (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) - Final round of judging in Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020 (winners to be announced on October 22)
Emperor Penguins - Winner of the Inspirational Encounters category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019. See the Blog titled...
Emperor Penguins - Winner of the Inspirational Encounters category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019. See the Blog titled Category Winner in BPOTY 2019! for the accompanying text.
Fur Coats - Commended in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019
Fur Coats - Commended in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019
Autumnal Carrion Crow - shortlisted in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019
Autumnal Carrion Crow - shortlisted in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019
Sparrowhawk - shortlisted in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019
Sparrowhawk - shortlisted in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2019
Twinflower (Linnea borealis), Loch Fleet NNR, Sutherland - shortlisted in the Scottish Botanical category of Scottish Nature ...
Twinflower (Linnea borealis), Loch Fleet NNR, Sutherland - shortlisted in the Scottish Botanical category of Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2018
Lava Cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus), Galapagos - final round of judging,  Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019
Lava Cactus (Brachycereus nesioticus), Galapagos - final round of judging, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019
Planet Adelie One - Bronze Award in the Creative Imagery category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Planet Adelie One - Bronze Award in the Creative Imagery category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Toco Toucan Tongue Two - shortlisted in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Toco Toucan Tongue Two - shortlisted in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sanderling - shortlisted in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sanderling - shortlisted in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sharks' Teeth - shortlisted in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sharks' Teeth - shortlisted in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sparrowhawk Five - commended in the Garden and Urban Birds category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sparrowhawk Five - commended in the Garden and Urban Birds category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Jabiru Sunset Two - commended in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Jabiru Sunset Two - commended in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Chinstrap Iceberg - commended in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Chinstrap Iceberg - commended in the Birds in the Environment category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Red-Billed Scythebill - commended in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Red-Billed Scythebill - commended in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Hyacinths Feeding - commended in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Hyacinths Feeding - commended in the Bird Behaviour category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Jabiru Sunset - commended in the Best Portrait category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Jabiru Sunset - commended in the Best Portrait category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
The All-Seeing Eye - commended in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
The All-Seeing Eye - commended in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Misted Blue Tit Feather - commended in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Misted Blue Tit Feather - commended in the Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sparrowhawk Glare - commended in the Garden and Urban Birds category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Sparrowhawk Glare - commended in the Garden and Urban Birds category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2018
Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) plumage - shortlisted in Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2017
Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) plumage - shortlisted in Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2017
Sparrowhawk Stare - shortlisted in Birds in the Garden category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2017
Sparrowhawk Stare - shortlisted in Birds in the Garden category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2017
Fan The Flames - shortlisted for Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2016
Fan The Flames - shortlisted for Attention to Detail category of Bird Photographer of the Year 2016
Worshipping The Sun - shortlisted for Animal Behaviour category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Worshipping The Sun - shortlisted for Animal Behaviour category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Tiptoeing Past - shortlisted for Animal Portraits category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Tiptoeing Past - shortlisted for Animal Portraits category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Snowprint Enigma - shortlisted for Habitat category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Snowprint Enigma - shortlisted for Habitat category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Blue Tit Feather - Highly Commended in Close to Nature category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Blue Tit Feather - Highly Commended in Close to Nature category of British Wildlife Photography Awards 2016
Scentless Mayweed in field of Common Poppy - shortlisted in the Scottish Botanical category of Scottish Nature Photography Aw...
Scentless Mayweed in field of Common Poppy - shortlisted in the Scottish Botanical category of Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016
Ice Contours, Drumguish - shortlisted in the Natural Abstract Category of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016
Ice Contours, Drumguish - shortlisted in the Natural Abstract Category of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016
Lady's Mantle - shortlisted in the Natural Abstract Category of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016
Lady's Mantle - shortlisted in the Natural Abstract Category of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016
Atacama Sunrise
Atacama Sunrise
Birch Redwings
Birch Redwings
Brodgar
Brodgar
Flamingo Symmetry
Flamingo Symmetry
African Jacana
African Jacana
Black-Headed Gull
Black-Headed Gull
Early Mist, Lyth
Early Mist, Lyth
Lake District Morning Mist
Lake District Morning Mist
Morning Mist with Figure
Morning Mist with Figure
Genesis 1 v7
Genesis 1 v7
Depression (Chacma Baboon)
Depression (Chacma Baboon)
Plains Zebras, Etosha
Plains Zebras, Etosha
Gone Guillemot
Gone Guillemot
Cape Petrel, Antarctica
Cape Petrel, Antarctica
Mallard Bathing Contre Jour
Mallard Bathing Contre Jour
Gentoo with Flag
Gentoo with Flag
Pierrot
Pierrot
(r)Ice Paddy
(r)Ice Paddy
Godafoss
Godafoss
Silver Birch 2
Silver Birch 2
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