Bird Photographer of the Year 2016 Winners
‘Mute Swan adult in detail’. Bird Photographer of the Year 2016 winner Andrew Parkinson. Mute Swan, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
Click on the links below to view all the winning images for the 2016 Bird Photographer of the Year Competition. Congratulations to our 2016 and very first Bird Photographer of the Year winner Andrew Parkinson from the United Kingdom for this unusual photograph of a Mute Swan on a Derbyshire river. As well as winning the £5,000 top prize, Andrew also collected a pair of Swarovski binoculars for winning the Attention to Detail category with this photograph.
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Category Winners
Our very first Bird Photographer of the Year competition was held in 2016, and we awarded prizes for Category Winners and Runners-up only. The success of this first competition allowed us to expand the prize structure in subsequent years to the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in each category. The following images are the Category Winners in each of the eight main competition categories. Our thanks go to Swarovski Optik and Alamy for sponsoring the prizes for our the Category Award winners.
Category Runners-up
The following images are the runners-up in each of the eight main competition categories. Our thanks go to Country Innovation for sponsoring the prizes for our runners-up in 2016.
Category Highly Commended Images
The following images are those that were Highly Commended by the judges in each of the eight main categories.
Best Portfolio Award Winner
Congratulations to Bence Máté who won our 2016 Best Portfolio Award with this set of images demonstrating consistency of skill and talent. Bence won a cash prize of £2,000 for this portfolio.
Young Bird Photographer of the Year 2016
Congratulations to Marc Albiac from Spain who won the Young Bird Photographer of the Year title for 2016. Our thanks go to the Cameron Bespolka Trust and Swarovski Optik for sponsoring this award.
