Achievements
2025 Close Up Photographer Of The Year 07 - Shortlisted in the ‘Fungi & Slime Moulds’ category. ‘Coral Tooth Cave’
2024 International Garden Photographer Of The Year Awards - 3rd place in ‘The World Of Fungi’ category. ‘Wrinkled Peach Close-Up’
2024 British Photography Awards - Shortlisted in the ‘Macro’ category. ‘Breaking Down’
2024 Close Up Photographer Of The Year 06 - Shortlisted in the ‘Insects’ category. ‘Sleeping Flower Bee’
2024 Close Up Photographer Of The Year - Challenge 23, ‘Water’ - Shortlisted. ‘Sleeping Cuckoo Bee’
2023 British Photography Awards - Shortlisted in the ‘Land Animal’ and ‘Macro’ categories. ‘Zigzag’ and ‘Cuckoo Bee’
2023 International Garden Photographer Of The Year Awards - Finalist in the ‘World Of Fungi’ category. ‘Wrinkled Peach Wonderland’
2023 Nature TTL Photographer Of The Year - Highly Commended in the ‘Small World’ category. ‘Sawfly Larvae’
2023 Close Up Photographer Of The Year 05 - Shortlisted in the ‘Insects’ category. ‘Robber Fly With Prey’
2023 Wild Art Photographer Of The Year - ‘Tiny’ Highly Commended. ‘Sawfly Larvae’
2023 Wild Art Photographer Of The Year - ‘Tiny’ Commended. ‘Robber Fly With Prey’
2023 Wild Art Photographer Of The Year - ‘Tiny’ Top 100. ‘The Ant Farmer’, ‘Green Tiger Beetle’, ‘Robber Fly With Prey’, ‘Sawfly Larvae’ and ‘Wool Carder Bee’
2023 Wild Art Photographer Of The Year - ‘Colour’ Top 100. ‘Say It With Flowers’
2022 Close Up Photographer Of The Year - Challenge 22, ‘Minimal’ - Shortlisted. ‘Jumping Spider’
2022 Close Up Photographer Of The Year 04 - Shortlisted in the ‘Insects’ category. ‘The Aphid Farmer.’ Shortlisted in the ‘Butterflies & Dragonflies’ category. ‘Common Blue Damselfly’
2022 Essex Photography Prize - Finalist. ‘European Wool Carder Bee’
2022 Wild Art Photographer of the Year - ‘Wet’ Top 100 ‘Cuckoo Bee’
2022 Wild Art Photographer of the Year - ‘Space’ Top 100 ‘Cabbage Stem Weevil’
2022 Wild Art Photographer of the Year - ‘Colour’ Top 100 ‘Fan-Bristled Robber Fly’ and ‘Ichneumon Wasp’
2021 British Photography Awards - Shortlisted in the macro category. ‘Green Eyed Flower Bee’
2021 Essex Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Highly Commended in the 'Pattern and Texture' category. 'Elephant Hawk-Moth”
2021 Suffolk Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Winner of the ‘Invertebrates’ category. ‘Dewy Demoiselle’
2021 Buglife Bug Photography Awards - 7 shortlisted images
2021 Close Up Photographer Of The Year 03 - Shortlisted in the ‘Butterflies & Dragonflies’ category. ‘Common Darter Dragonfly’
2021 Close Up Photographer Of The Year - Challenge 21, ‘Two of a Kind’ - Shortlisted 'Lily Beetles’
2021 British Photography Awards - Shortlisted in the macro category. ‘Green Eyed Flower Bee’
2020 Luminar Bug Photography Awards - 18 shortlisted images
2020 Essex Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Winner of the ‘Pattern and Texture’ category. ‘Migrant Hawker Dragonfly’
2020 Suffolk Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Winner of the ‘On The Doorstep’ category. ‘Green Eyed Flower Bee’
2020 Close Up Photographer Of The Year - Challenge 20, ‘One Colour Frame’ - Finalist. ‘7 Spot Ladybird’ and Shortlisted. ‘Speckled Bush-Cricket’
2019 Essex Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Overall winner in the public vote. ‘Common Darter Dragonfly’
2019 Essex Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Winner of the ‘Pattern and Texture’ category. ‘Common Darter Dragonfly’
2019 Suffolk Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Judges overall winner. ‘Common Darter Dragonfly’
2019 Suffolk Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Winner of the ‘Strictly Come Wildlife’ category. ‘Common Darter Dragonfly’
2018 Essex Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Highly Commended in the ‘EWT to a Tee’ category. ‘Dragonfly Symmetry’
2018 Suffolk Wildlife Trust Photography Competition - Runner Up in the ‘Out of Sight’ category. ‘Head on Migrant Hawker’
2018 The National Insect Week Photography Competition - Commended ‘Dragonfly Symmetry’
2018 Zeiss ‘Discoveries on your doorstep’ Competition - Finalist. ‘Jumbo Peregrine’
2016 Firstsite’s ‘Essence of Essex’ photography competition - Most popular image, voted by the public. ‘Beach Sea Defences’
