WildArt Photographer of the Year Winners - COLOUR

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COLOUR was our final competition category for 2021 and sought entries throughout October. COLOUR is the design of William Steel and we received 863 entries into this contest, which sought to celebrate the colour found in nature. Yet again, the judges we blown away by the diversity and creativity of the entries which demonstrated a myriad of photographic techniques and showcased a variety of species. Many congratulations to all our winners featured here, but especially Jan Piecha from Germany for his amazing Stingray image which has won our Gold Award in this category, Jan’s second Gold Award in the competition! As well as winning £500 Jan secures another chance to become our very first WildArt Photographer of the Year winner with his image. Not only did Jan strike Gold for the second time with this category, he also wins our Bronze Award with a fabulous image of a Raccoon. William’s conservation cause is Botswana Predator Consrevation, for which we raised £169 through a percentage of competition entry fees. Thanks to all who entered COLOUR and helped us to raise this money for conservation. Please watch our awards presentation to see all the images and hear what our judge William Steel, and the winners have to say. And you can see the winning images in the forthcoming WildArt POTY book, so you can enjoy them forever. Click the book cover above to order your copy.

Jan Piecha - COLOUR GOLD AWARD WINNER

COLOUR Gold Award Winner ‘Shallow Water’ ©Jan Piecha

Congratulations go to Daniela Anger, also from Germany, who wins our Silver Award and £200 with this image of a Toco Toucan entitled ‘Nature meets Plastic’.

COLOUR SILVER AWARD WINNER - Daniela Anger

COLOUR Silver Award Winner ‘Nature Meets Plastic’ ©Daniela Anger

COLOUR BRONZE AWARD WINNER - Jan Piecha

COLOUR Bronze Award Winner ‘City Lights’ ©Jan Piecha

Cotton Carrier Prize Winner ‘The Last Frontier’ ©Amit Eshel

Wild Planet Photo Magazine Award Winner ‘Squabble’ ©Rick Beldegreen

COTTON CARRIER AWARD WINNER

Many congratulations go to Amit Eshel from Israel who wins our Cotton Carrier Award with this image of a Brown Bear entitled ‘The Last Frontier’. Amit wins a camera sling from Cotton Carrier.

WILD PLANET PHOTO MAGAZINE - EDITOR’S CHOICE

Congratulations go to Rick Beldegreen from the United States for this image of Red-legged Honeycreepers entitled ‘Squabble’. Rick is our Wild Planet Photo Magazine Editor’s Choice for COLOUR and receives a year’s free subscription to the magazine.

FOUNDER’S CHOICE

Congratulations to Brad James from Canada for this image of a Yellow Warbler entitled ‘Yellow Warbler in Pink’ which is Rob Read’s Founder’s Choice for COLOUR. This image is also Commended by the judges.

WILDART YOUNG COLOUR CATEGORY WINNER

Our congratulations go to D’Artagnan Sprengel from New Zealand who wins our Young Award for COLOUR with this close up image of the feather detail of a Takahe. D’Artagnan wins £50 and books his third place in our grand final at the end of the year, having previously won our LIGHT and ABSTRACT Young categories, and will be considered for our overall WildArt Young Photographer of the Year.