Wildlife Photo Exhibition open
Tuesday 1st February
Visitors are being given the chance to vote for winning wildlife photos in our new exhibition.
The exhibition in Nottingham city, which showcases the best of local amateur wildlife photography, is now open.
Running for 5 weeks until 6th March, the exhibition at The Museum of Nottingham Life on Castle Boulevard is a chance for members of the public to cast their votes and help choose the winners of our recent Wildlife Photography competition.
Amateur photographers were asked to submit their shots of local wildlife for this special exhibition into one of the following three categories:
Mini Meadows – snaps of wildflowers and grassland meadows
Wildlife in the City – shots of wildlife in urban areas
Winter Wildlife – images depicting wildlife in the winter months
Out of the 280 entries received, around 100 have been shortlisted to go on display at the museum at Brewhouse Yard. Click to view a photo gallery featuring a selection from this shortlist on the BBC news website.
The competition began at the end of last year as we celebrated the success of our Mini Meadows campaign, and the start of our Wildlife in the City project, by launching the Mini Meadows Photography Competition to find the best wildlife pics in the county.
Speaking about the competition, Communications and Marketing Manager Erin McDaid said: “The standard of photos submitted was extremely high and we were very pleased to receive so many entries. We found it difficult to narrow them down to a shortlist of 104 photos to be judged by the public in our exhibition. The range of pictures sent in capture so many different aspects of our county’s diverse wildlife – including butterflies, birds, rabbits and foxes, as well as beautiful wildflowers and icy winter landscapes”.
The exhibition is running in the museum from Tuesday 1st February to Sunday 6th March and is open 10am - 4.30pm (last admission 4pm).
Entry is free to City residents; those who live outside Nottingham will receive free entry with each Nottingham Castle or Brewhouse Yard Museum admission. Each visitor to the exhibition will be able to cast their vote for their favourite photograph in each category.
Our Mini Meadows campaign was launched in Spring 2010, funded by the Big Lottery Fund and Novozymes Biopharma, to help reverse the loss of 98% of Britain’s wildflower meadows. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust gave away 15,000 packs of free seeds specially selected to help attract a wide range of wildlife, including bees, butterflies and birds, into gardens around the county. This year the charity will be relaunching the campaign, in association with Novozymes Biopharma, and is preparing to give away thousands more free wildflower seed packs.
Wildlife in the City is a new three-year partnership between Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Nottingham City Council, which aims to reconnect urban communities with local green spaces. The project is focusing on ten key sites around Nottingham city, encouraging residents to get outdoors to engage with and learn more about the wildlife on their doorstep. Wildlife in the City is supported by Natural England through Access to Nature, as part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme.
