What’s new?
10 October 2007
Wildlife photography competition
Take part and focus on the fenlands in Cambridgeshire
Are you a budding wildlife photographer who would like the opportunity to enter into a new and challenging competition?
The Wildlife Trust, the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge and the RSPB have come together to give you the chance to take part a local photography competition, called ‘Fens through a Lens.‘
The Fens, once England’s greatest wetland wilderness, are coming back to life. The competition aims to capture this in stunning pictures of nature reserves, specifically the Great Fen Project including the National Nature Reserves Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen, the Wildlife Trust’s Roswell Pits in Ely the RSPB’s Lakenheath Fen, Fen Drayton Lakes and the joint Wildlife Trust and RSPB, Ouse Washes nature reserves.
Helen Moore, education and community officer with the Wildlife Trust added: “The Wildlife Trust is delighted to be working with the RSPB and the Zoology Museum to encourage people to go out with their cameras and experience the wonders of fen landscape and wildlife.”
Entries will be judged in adult, 16 to 19, 13 to 15 and under 12 age groups, and the winning and commended images will feature in a major public exhibition at the Zoology Museum during the autumn of 2008.
The entry forms for the ‘Fens through a Lens’ competiton are available from the Zoology Museum now, with a closing date in June 2008.
Entrants, as well as local businesses and other organisations interested in sponsoring this local initiative, can get an entry form, and register for more information, by contacting Julie McArthur, Zoology Museum events and outreach officer on 01223 336650 or jdm67@cam.ac.uk.