Galapagos Photography Competition

We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2012 Galapagos Photography Competition. Our panel of professional judges selected Sebastian Cruz's image Galapagos Hawk Captures A Red-billed Tropicbird as the overall winner and Rick Du Boisson's landscape entry Kicker Rock At Dawn as the runner-up.

Sebastian took this striking photograph of a Galapagos hawk feeding on a red-billed tropicbird while surveying swallow-tailed gulls on Espanola Island. Currently working towards his PhD with the Max Planck Institute, he knows these birds well. This hawk is one of a pair that regularly hunts seabirds around the Punta Cevallos seabird colony which Sebastian surveys daily. Judge Pete Oxford had this to say about Sebastian's photograph...

"Galapagos is known for the tameness of its fauna, yet we must not forget that the islands are truly wild. This image, by Sebastian Cruz, evokes in me an overwhelming sense of wildness and raw Nature. The light is dramatic leading the viewer to fully appreciate the regal stature of the hawk as well as highlight its predatory prowess. The prey, a red-billed tropic bird, meanwhile blends perfectly into the guano spattered rocks, we know it is there, gripped in the hawk's talons, yet it does not distract from the subject at all - congratulations Sebas!"

Rick Du Boisson's Kicker Rock At Dawn was unanimously voted as the winner of the Landscape category by judges Pete Oxford, Tui De Roy, David Plummer and GCT's Neil Aldridge.

You can see all of the category winners in the gallery below. Keep an eye on this website for the launch of the 2013 competition. Information on judges, prizes, categories and how to enter your photographs will be posted here in due course.

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