PPAI

Nature & The Environment
2011

1ST PLACE WINNER
Nature & The Environment 2011

ROOM WITH A VIEW

by Fran Veale

A child at his apartment window in the unfinished estate of Belmayne, Dublin.

2ND PLACE
SNOW SEATS

By Brendan Moran

A general view of the seats in Croke Park under snow during the spell of bad weather in December.

3RD PLACE
ICE CYCLE

By John C Kelly

Boatmen breaking ice at Gortglass Lake, Clare, for the annual Christmas Day swim as a man cycles his bike on the frozen lake surface.

SHORTLISTED
WOOF AND READY

By Mark Condren

Sandbags in Dublin as the city is placed on flood alert

SHORTLISTED
ETHIOPIA HARVEST

By Kim Haughton

Zinet and her father Yusef thresh the wheat as they reap the January harvest in an agricultural tradition that hasn't changed for centuries.

SHORTLISTED
A WALK IN THE WOODS

By Frank Miller

Walking in the woods near Lough Hyne, West Corka

SHORTLISTED
SOLTANOVKA ADULT MENTAL ASYLUM, CHERNOBYL

By Eamon Ward

Patients from the Mogilev region of Belarus who for a quarter of a Century have suffered the effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

SHORTLISTED
CATCH OF THE DAY

By Dara MacDónaill

A kestrel takes away it's prey (a rat) along the Bull Wall, Dollymount Dublin.

SHORTLISTED
DUBLIN ON ICE

By Aidan Crawley

Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin pictured durung heavy snowfall during the worst weather on record