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Adrian Hendroff – Labyrinth, Dunmore Head Co. Kerry, 1st in the Creativity and the Coast category.
A NUMBER of photos taken in Kerry have won prizes in the 13th edition of the Clean Coasts Love Your Coast photography competition announced at an award ceremony in the Smock Alley Theatre, in Dublin on Thursday.
For the past 13 years, the Love Your Coast photography competition has been inviting photographers to capture the uniqueness of our coastal landscape, heritage, wildlife, communities and more, and to submit their best shot across five categories – Coastal Heritage, Coastal Landscape, People & the Coast, Wildlife & the Coast and Creativity and the Coast – for a chance to win prizes from a €5,000 prize fund and plenty of exposure opportunities.
This year, they received over 1,100 entries and the 50 best images were shortlisted and displayed at the event at Smock Alley.
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Adrian Hendroff with his “Labyrinth” – captured at Dunmore Head, Co. Kerry – received the first place prize in the Creativity and the Coast Category.
Todor Tilev with “Sunset at Inch Beach”, shot at Inch Beach, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, arrived second in the People and the Coast Category.
Todor Tilev – Sunset at Inch Beach, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry, 2nd in People and the Coast category.
The image was taken during a family holiday to the Dingle Peninsula, on the way back from Killarney, when Todor noticed a kitesurfer during a stop at Inch Beach and decided to snap this photo.
In addition to that, images taken at other locations in Kerry, including Clogher Beach, Inch Beach, St. Finians Bay, Dunmore Head, Kells, Fenit and Little Skelligs were shortlisted among the top ten images in the other categories, namely Coastal Heritage, Coastal Landscape, People & the Coast and Wildlife & the Coast. See images below…
Kevin Grace – Dunmore, Head Dingle Kerry, Dunmore Head, Top 10 in Coastal Landscape category.
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Conor O’Brien – Three Wise Sheep, Dunmore Head, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry
Sean O’Riordan – The Skelligs, St Finians Bay, Co. Kerry
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Pakie O Donoghue – Beach walker, Inch Beach, Dingle, Co Kerry.
Todor Tilev – The Storm, Clogher Beach, Co Kerry
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Karol Waszkiewicz – Brent Geese flying over stormy Tralee Bay, Fenit, Co.Kerry.
Maja Stankovski – Curious Blenny , Little Skellig, Co. Kerry.
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Gerard Lynch – Lonesone Boatman, Kells Bay Co. Kerry
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