'The Spirit of the Sea'

Results

The competition was judged by well known local professional photographer Finnbarr Webster. Prizes were presented by Tony Bates, the President of the Dorset Wildlife Trust, who is a celebrated photographer of the natural world. Winners of the Spirit of the Sea Festival Photographic Competition met on the Fleet Observer to receive their prizes. Fittingly, first prize in all categories was a signed copy of a brand new book ‘Dorset - A Naturalist’s County’ superbly illustrated with Tony’s photographs and written by one of Dorset’s foremost wildlife experts, Nigel Webb.

There were three categories this year and the winners were:
Open Category - Cathy Foley, Mick Rose, Paula Fry.
Underwater Category - Spike Piddock
Junior Category - James Jefferies.

The winning picture in the Open Section

The runner up picture from Mick Rose

In third place was this picture from Cathy Foley

The winning underwater photograph by Spike Piddock.

The winning picture in the junior category fromJames Jeffries.