Yoga studio, tiki bar and craft den are among 2021 Shed of the Year lockdown entries

Britain’s lockdown lockups! Yoga studio, tiki bar and nurse’s craft den are among 2021 Shed of the Year entries after serving as ideal sanctuaries to sit out the pandemic The 2021 Cuprinol Shed of the Year is celebrating the unusual garden creations made during lockdown Among the entries are a garden yoga studio, a bar, … Read more

Mobile Photography Awards 2021 reveals its stunning winning entries

Would you be able to tell these were taken on a smartphone? The stunning winning entries from the Mobile Photography Awards 2021 The 2021 Mobile Photography Awards attracted 5,700 entries from photographers in 75 countries  The grand prize winner was Chinese photographer Dan Liu, who received a cash prize of $3,000 (£2,165)  The awards founder … Read more

2021 Sony World Photography Awards: Amazing open competition entries

The overall winners for the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards will be announced next month, but in the meantime feast your eyes on this mouth-watering hors d’oeuvre from the organisers – category winners and shortlisted entries in the open competition. Anyone, of any ability, can enter from across the world – so amateurs compete with … Read more

The winning entries in the National Awards category of the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards

The Sony World Photography Awards 2021 is shaping up very nicely indeed. The judges have revealed the winners in the competition’s National Awards. And they’re quite something.  Overall, the contest receives entries from over 200 territories. However, these winners are drawn from the 51 countries in its National Awards programme, which celebrates local photography talent. … Read more

The stunning winning entries in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 contest revealed

Untamed nature in all of its wild, untouched beauty. That’s what these winning and commended entries in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 competition hosted by the German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) show. The contest, which aims to celebrate modern nature photography, attracted 19,000 entries from 38 countries. The overall winning image, … Read more

The 2021 Sony World Photography Awards reveals stunning early entries

From big surf to big cats: The stunning early submissions in the 2021 Sony World Photography Awards Organisers of the Sony World Photography Awards 2021 have offered a glimpse at some of the entries so far They include a powerful shot of a lion, a charming image of a penguin and an epic Icelandic mountain  … Read more

Some of the best entries for 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year have been revealed

A picture of the Amazon ablaze and a very muddy hippo are among images which have scored highly with judges of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.  Highly commended images chosen from almost 50,000 entries to the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 competition have been revealed. The images include … Read more

Some of the best entries for 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year have been revealed

A picture of the Amazon ablaze and a very muddy hippo are among images which have scored highly with judges of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.  Highly commended images chosen from almost 50,000 entries to the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 competition have been revealed. The images include … Read more

Half the entries on Scots Wikipedia are revealed as work of US teen who doesn’t speak the language

The majority of articles on the Scots Wikipedia page were written by a teenager in America who doesn’t speak Scots, it has been revealed. The user – who writes under screen name AmaryllisGardener – has made over 100,000 edits on the Scots Wikipedia, including creating tens of thousands of new pages and significantly expanding others. The articles … Read more