Our annual photographic competition challenges both professionals and amateurs to creatively capture zoo life through their camera lenses, for the chance to win some amazing prizes.
Here are our winners and runners-up from 2019.
| Category A - Best picture taken by a club photographer |
| 1st prize (overall winner) |
Ring tailed lemurs by Robert Sergeant |
| 2nd prize |
Malayan sun bear by Steve Haydon |
| 3rd prize |
White-bellied pygmy marmoset by Nigel Bell |
| Highly commended |
Panther chameleon by Malcolm Moorehead
Yellow mongoose by Malcolm Moorehead
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| Category B - Best picture taken by a zoo visitor |
| 1st prize |
Palm cockatoo by Bruce Marshall |
| 2nd prize |
White-tailed sea eagle by Mo Rainey |
| 3rd prize |
Black-tailed prairie dog by Mervyn Marshall |
| Highly commended |
Ostrich by John McMullan
Rothschild’s giraffe by Lesley Barker
|
| Category C - Best black and white picture |
| 1st prize |
Visayan warty pig by Mervyn Marshall |
| 2nd prize |
Eastern black and white colobus monkey by Mervyn Marshall |
| 3rd prize |
Chimpanzee by Mervyn Marshall |
| Highly commended |
Southern screamer by Malcolm Moorehead
Barbary lion by Mervyn Marshall
|
| Category D - Best funny caption |
Caption: |
| 1st prize |
François Langur by Stephen McComb |
"Peek-a-boo" |
| Category E - Best picture taken by someone under 16 |
| 1st prize |
Gentoo penguin by Luke Jordan (age 8) |
| 2nd prize |
Linne's two-toed sloth by Luke Jordan (age 8)
|
| 3rd prize |
Crowned lemur by Jack Sweeney (age 13) |
| Highly commended |
Heron by Connie Hamilton (age 13)
Yellow mongoose by Ethan Corrigan (age 10)
|
| Category F - Best picture of zoo gardens or landscapes |
| 1st prize |
Cave hill with giraffe by Sean Megahey |
| 2nd prize |
Mountain walk view by Bruce Marshall |
| 3rd prize |
Zoo entrance in bloom by Deirdre Corrigan |
For more information email photocomp@belfastzoo.co.uk or call 028 9077 6277 ext 229