A large number of Scottish Photographers were successful in the 94th Scottish Salon.
A Gallery containing some of the Scottish Acceptances will be uploaded soon. Until then, you can see many of the print acceptances (Over 400 prints) and all of the Award Winning Prints and PDIs at the Scottish Salon Exhibition which runs until 16th June. More details of the Exhibtion are supplied in the diary area above or download the latest SPF e-flash for more on the Exhibition and a list of all of the Scottish Award Winners.
To download the latest SPF e-flash (click here) or the Results copy of the e-salon newsletter (click here)
A juvenile Osprey that appears to be in 'stealth mode' has been revealed as the overall winner of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016. Photographer Gordon Rae, from Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, took the shot at Rothiemurchus near Aviemore. Gordon is a member of Dumfries Camera Club and the current Jnr Vice President of the SPF.
The judging panel – Andy Hall, Richard Shucksmith and Niall Irvine – chose Undercover Osprey as their overall winner from categories covering wildlife, landscape, environmental, botanical and abstract subjects, awarding Gordon the title Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year 2016.
Click on this news article to read more, or visit the Scottish Nature Photography Awards website (click here) to see all of this year's award winning images.
You can see more of Gordon's images by visiting his MPAGB gallery on this website (click here)
The winning images from all ten categories will tour Scotland from July 2017 and will be published along with the shortlisted images in a Portfolio Yearbook in the summer. Details on SNPA website (click here)
This gallery contains all of this year's SPF Print Championship Award Winners. Please note that many of the images are from print capture on the day.
If you are the author and would like to give us the PDI original, for inclusion in this gallery instead of the print capture, please contact...
This gallery contains Kenneth Gillies of Edinburgh Photographic Society's successful CPAGB entry, Adjudicated at Croydon, April 2017.
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