After a successful first year and a widely acclaimed photographic exhibition, the British Wildlife Photography Awards have announced the launch of their second competition which is now open for entries.
The awards will be presented in October 2010 and will then tour the UK. National Trust are once again delighted to be involved in the tour and the first of our places to host these awards will be Nunnington Hall in Yorkshire in November 2010.
Established to celebrate and highlight the great wealth and diversity of British natural history while at the same time recognising the talents of all photographers practising in the UK, BWPA are looking to build on recent successes and are introducing several new categories.
This includes a special award for conservation photography and a category dedicated to British biodiversity and native species under threat, to reflect the fact that 2010 has been declared International Year of Biodiversity, by the United Nations.
Have just started adding the photo`s for my trip to India in December, huge task so have started added them bit by bit so check back to see them as more get added.
20 Years December Gallery
The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) is an application designed for landscape photographers.
If like me you wander round this great planet looking for the right light to take landscape photo`s then you really need to look at this magic application, it gives you full sun up and sun down times and moon, for anywhere.. uses google maps and Adobe air to run it.
Go to the link to view, and please if you use it a couple of times, give the guy some money cos it really is a very good program.
Link at top or here :>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The Photographers Ephemeris
Japan continues to kill whales in the Southern Ocean. Credit Australian customs.
Massive cuts to subsidy may force an end to Japanese whaling
November 12 2009. A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a body which funds the so-called scientific research programme.The Spending Review Committee recommended that the Overseas Fisheries Cooperation Fund (OFCF), which gives loans to the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) to run the discredited science programme, have all of its funding revoked, except monies needed for loans in 2010.
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Think on this before you buy ivory
Ivory sales lead to an increase in Elephant poaching October 2009. Even though the ivory trade was banned 20 years ago, a shocking 104 elephants are still being killed every day for their tusks. This alarming level of illegal hunting could drive the African elephant to extinction across much of Africa in just 15 years.
End to one-off sales needed
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is calling for urgent action to protect elephants. It calls on the European Union and all CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) parties to stop supporting one-off ivory sales, legal ivory trade and elephant down-listing proposals. Instead, they are urged to support Kenya’s proposal to extend the current “resting period” on elephant and ivory decisions from nine to 20 years when it is introduced at the next meeting of CITES in March 2010. IFAW also calls on the EU to help range states that are requesting assistance to fight poaching.
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