For a number of reasons I haven’t done much bird photography recently. Pardon me for blowing my own trumpet but perhaps subconciously I was influenced by the following statement in an internal document written earlier this year by Will Troughton of the National Library of Wales:
” Since then [1989] Jeremy Moore has become recognised as Wales’ leading environmental photographer. Over the succeeding years the Library has been fortunate to acquire over 400 high quality prints from different projects covering the length and breadth of Wales. His meticulous work has received extensive praise from many quarters.”
Will has now retired so whether that support will continue under his successor remains to be seen. But who could resist quoting that statement? I guess I didn’t spend much time on the birdlife of Coed Tamsin during my project there during 2025-2026, and since then my main focus has been on documenting the wildfires occurring all over Wales during the late summer. That will probably continue.
However I recently came across the WildArt Bird Photography Awards. Its publicity blurb includes the following statement :
When we launched the awards back in July, we hoped our vision of celebrating creativity, originality and a different way of looking at birds would strike a chord with photographers around the world. The response has been fantastic, and we’re enormously grateful to everyone who has helped make our first year such a success.
I had some success in the BWPA a few years ago (two ‘highly commended images’ – or was it three….? ) but there is some concern that these competitions are primarily about raising money for their organisers. So I haven’t entered any for a number of years. But in a bit of a ‘what the hell’ moment I handed over my rather substantial entry fee and began the very enjoyable process of searching through images accumulated over the last few years that I thought might fit the bill. So I’m posting a few of my entries here. Some are very definitely not your standard bird pictures: I particularly like the Mallard images – entered into the ‘abstract’ category – in which you may struggle to find any actual birds!
So wish me luck!
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Great set of images Jeremy, I’ve been trying to Like but it just won’t work ….. hmmmm