Wiltshire Wildlife Photography Prize

Capturing the Wild: The Wiltshire Wildlife Photography Prize 2025

Wiltshire is a county teeming with natural beauty. From the flash of a kingfisher on our chalk streams, to the silent grace of a barn owl hunting at dusk, to our breahtaking vistas and undulating landscapes. And now it’s your turn to capture it!

The Wiltshire Wildlife Photography Prize (previously called Wiltshire Wildsnaps) sponsored by WildView Cameras, has launched and we are searching for the most inspiring, powerful, and beautiful images of our county and its wildlife. Whether you're an expert with a long lens or a budding photographer with a camera phone, we want to see your view of your Wiltshire.

What will you discover?

Show us the behaviour, the beauty, and the spirit of Wiltshire's wildlife and lansdcapes. Your photography could win you a fantastic prize and be featured in our magazine and online galleries, helping us to showcase our incredible shared natural heritage and inspire more people into nature and photography.

How to Enter 

• Images can be of any type of wildlife, nature, or landscapes; they can be taken at one of our 40 nature reserves or in any Wiltshire setting
• Images should be no less than 2MB and should have been taken within the last year (1 August 2024- 22 August 2025)
• Entries must be submitted through our online entry forms before 5pm on 22 August 2025

The Prizes 

Our wonderful sponsors Wild View Cameras have generously sponsored this year's Wiltshire Wildlife Photography Prize which means the following prizes will be available:

Winner - Over 18 Prize: £200 voucher from Wild View Cameras; the opportunity to feature on the frontcover and in a special feature in our Wiltshire Wildlife Magazine; feature in the online gallery on our website; social media posts.  

Winner - Under 18 Prize: £200 voucher from Wild View Cameras; the opportunity to feature on the frontcover and in a special feature in our Wiltshire Wildlife Magazine; feature in the online gallery on our website; social media posts.  

Highly Commended - Over 18 Prize: £50 voucher from Wild View Cameras; your image part of a speical feature in our Wiltshire Wildlife Magazine; feature in the online gallery on our website; social media posts. 

Highly Commended - Under 18 Prize: £50 voucher from Wild View Cameras; your image part of a speical feature in our Wiltshire Wildlife Magazine; feature in the online gallery on our website; social media posts. 

Meet the Judges

We are delighted to have a panel of incredible judges who will use their expertise to select the winning images from the shortlist.

Nick Upton, Wildlife Photographer & Filmmaker

Nick Upton is an award-winning wildlife photographer, filmmaker and PhD biologist. After 25 years in wildlife television production for the BBC and others, his photographs now tell powerful conservation stories and capture intriguing and often overlooked wildlife behaviours. He's documented major UK projects from the reintroduction of beavers, cranes and bustards to the protection of hedgehogs, swifts and other Wiltshire wildlife. He’s won major prizes at the British Wildlife Photography and Bird Photographer of the Year Awards, is much published and supplies many images to major conservation bodies. (or to the Wildlife Trusts and other major conservation bodies.)

Joanna Richards, Head of Communications & Marketing, The Wildlife Trusts

As the Head of Communications for the national office, Joanna helps to shape the voice of The Wildlife Trusts movement across the UK. She has a deep understanding of the power of visual storytelling in motivating people to take action for nature. With years of experience leading national campaigns and brand communications, Joanna knows what makes an image compelling, memorable, and effective in championing our natural world. She is passionate about photography that not only showcases wildlife's beauty but also conveys a narrative that can inspire positive change.

Aby Davies, Senior Marketing and Communiations Officer, National Trust 

Aby is Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at Lacock Abbey, where Henry Talbot and his wife Constance were experimenting with early photography in the 1830s, with Henry inventing the negative there in 1835. Aby has loved photography ever since her school darkroom days, and now enjoys working somewhere where she can see photographic creativity every day; whether that’s people following in the Talbot’s footsteps with analogue cameras, nature-lovers snapping snowdrops, or families sharing days out on their phones. Aby worries about AI in the arts and the pursuit of ‘perfection’; for her, an impactful image is one capturing the truth of a moment.