Litfest Northwest Landscape and Wildlife Photography Competition 2024
— Online Exhibition
Winning Photographs
The winning photographs were selected from more than 100 photographs submitted by 50 photographers and judged by ornithologist Tim Birkhead, social historian David Kynaston and photographer Steve Thomas. They were:
Ellen Bell, Common Blue Darter, Reddish Vale Country Park, nr Manchester
Graham Dean, Beached Boats, Fartle Barrow, Morecambe, Lancashire
Iwona Suwala, Wind Turbines, Walney Island, Cumbria
Under-18s Winner: Jed Tansley, Fallow Deer, Dallam Tower deer park, Cumbria
Jonny Gios, Otters, River Kent, Kendal, Cumbria
John Bentham, Tern with sand eel, Hodbarrow Nature Reserve, Millom, Cumbria
All exhibited photographs
Alistair How, Blackpool at the end of the day, Lancashire
Chris Armstrong, Brown hare, Trough of Bowland, Lancashire
Daryl Hopcroft, Southern hawker female, Mere Sands Wood, Rufford, Lancashire
Diane Hinson, Astley Plantation, nr Fell Foot Wood, Cumbria
Ellen Bell, Common Blue Darter, Reddish Vale Country Park, nr Manchester
Ellen Bell, Mating Damselflies, Reddish Vale Country Park, nr Manchester
Gemma de Cat, Treecreeper, Haslingden, Lancashire
Graham Dean, Beached Boats, Fartle Barrow, Morecambe, Lancashire
Heather Bolton, Lake shore, Derwent Water, from Friars Crag, Keswick, Cumbria
Iwona Suwala, Roan Head Beach, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria
Iwona Suwala, Wind Turbines, Walney Island, Cumbria
James Park, Woodwell, Silverdale, Lancashire
Jed Tansley, Fallow Deer, Dallam Tower deer park, Cumbria
John Bentham, Tern with sand eel, Hodbarrow Nature Reserve, Millom, Cumbria
Jonny Gios, Otters, River Kent, Kendal, Cumbria
Keith Bannister, Hungry starling chicks, Barrowford, Lancashire
Keith Bannister, Ye Olde Watermill, Borrowdale, Cumbria
Les Thomas, Barn owl quartering a field near Pilling, Lancashire
Lucy Embley, Barn owl, caught in a rain shower, Calderbrook, Littleborough, Lancashire
Mark Harder, Grebes at Sunrise, Pendle View Holiday Park, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Michael Finch, Chilsey Green Farm, Clitheroe, Lancashire
Mick Bryan, kingfisher in flight, Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley, Lancashire
Nicola Fearnley, Salmon jump at Sedgwick, Lancashire
Paul Rayney, Snowstorm over Lancaster, Lancashire
Peter Wiseman, Rannerdale, Cumbria
Robert Wight, Mink, River Kent, Cumbria
Sheila Ivison, Bittern on ice, Siddick Ponds Nature Reserve, Workington, Cumbria
Tom Holloway, Entwistle viaduct, Wayoh Reservoir, nr Bolton, Lancashire
Tom Wilson, barn owl, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire
Wendy Elle, Grey heron, Lancaster Canal, Lancaster, Lancashire
