Wild shots: Scottish Nature Photography Awards winners

Darren Cole's image Ice and Fire won the environmental and overall prizes

The winners of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2021 have been announced.

The overall winner is landscape photographer Darren Cole, whose winning image portrays a dramatic scene of a muirburn fire, a controlled fire to burn away dead vegetation, below snow-covered peaks near his home on the Isle of Harris.

The picture - called Ice and Fire - also won the environmental category.

There is more information on the winners and the competition on the awards' website.

Blue Hour Shells by James Dewar, of Fife, won the natural abstract category

John Macfarlane, of Loweswater, Cumbria, won the botanical award with his photograph of autumn rowans and lichens

The land award in the landscape category was won by Graham Niven, of Nethy Bridge, with his shot Cairngorm Squall

The landscape sea and coast award went to Gourock Paddling Pools by Pete Stevens, of Greenock

Perth Lightning won Connor McLaren, of Perth, the urban greenspace award in the landscape category

Glasgow's Sandy Gilmour won the wildlife behaviour prize with his picture Mallard Duckling Chasing a Mayfly

Norman Watson, of Insch, took the wildlife portrait award with his image Fox Cub King

Kaitlyn Clark, 11, from Inverness, was named Junior Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year

Murronrose Dunn, of Glasgow and an HND Photography student at New College Lanarkshire, won the Student Scottish Nature Photographer of the Year accolade with the portfolio Passing Time

Springtime in the Pond: The Toads won the video category for Pat Douglass, of Rosemarkie

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