About the only competition that Geoff enters regularly.
In the 1998 Competition, Geoff's photo of a Red-throated Diver on its nest
and perfectly reflected in calm water (view picture)
was the winner of the 'Animal Portraits' category. The Red-throated Diver
(like a streamlined goose) is a rare bird in Britain, breeding only in the
wild moorlands of Scotland, and a special licence is required to photograph
it anywhere near its nest.
Photographing Red-throated Divers in north Scotland
(seven hours in the 'sweatbox')
Geoff receiving his award from Sir David Attenborough at the
Awards Ceremony of the BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Competition
at the Natural History Museum, London, in October 1998.
Photo courtesy Bill Mackenzie
Geoff also had another picture Highly Commended in the 'Wild Places' category,
a photo of a group of Shags at the base of a huge sea-cliff with giant
crashing waves (view picture).
In the 1997 Competition, Geoff's photo of a Kingfisher perched on one of
a group of posts and reflected in the lagoon of a Nature Reserve in
England (view picture) was Highly Commended
in the ‘Composition and Form’ category.
In the 1994 Competition - which attracted 'only' 12,000 entries - his photo of Fallow Deer grazing beneath a Scots Pine at dusk in the New Forest in England (view picture) was
runner-up in the ‘From Dusk to Dawn’ category.
In earlier years of the Competition he has been winner of the 'All Other Animals' Category with a close-up picture of a Horse-fly and has had several other photos Highly Commended.
(Winning and Highly Commended photographs from the Wildlife Photographer of
the Year Competitions can be seen in the books of the same title published
annually by Fountain Press of the UK and the BBC).
BBC Countryfile/Radio Times
'Photo 2000' Competition
Geoff was one of the finalists in the BBC Countryfile/Radio Times
'Photo 2000' Competition - which had the theme 'The Changing Face of Britain's Rural
Countryside' - with his photograph of wild Scottish moorland ploughed for so-called 'tax-loss
forestry' (view picture).
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