PPAI

Nature & The Environment
2018

1ST PLACE WINNER
Nature & The Environment 2018

EAST CORK

by Cathal Noonan

Locals enjoying a late kickabout, as the evening light shines on Inch beach, Co Cork.

2ND PLACE
MURMURATION CLOUD

By Cyril Byrne

Starlings gather to roost at Ballywilliam, Co Wexford

3RD PLACE
TAKE AWAY LUNCH IN THE GREEN

By Cyril Byrne

A seagull grabs its lunch from a bin in St Stephen's Green

SHORTLISTED
STAG FRIGHT

By Niall Carson

A braying deer in Dublin's Phoenix Park, as the rutting season begins

SHORTLISTED
LOVE BIRDS

By Marc O’Sullivan

Birds in Dublin's Phoenix Park pictured against the moonlight

SHORTLISTED
CALM AFTER THE STORM

By Mark Condren

Siblings Tom and Elsa Dollard, walking on the historic Centre Park Road, Cork, which saw 27 fallen trees after hurricane Ophelia

SHORTLISTED
CAPTURING SEA MONSTERS

By Margaret McLaughlin

Capturing monster waves that battered the Co Antrim coast, at Ballintoy, where gales of up to 70mph hit the area in January

SHORTLISTED
REFLECTIONS IN THE RAIN

By Gerry Mooney

Despite a heavy downpour of rain, people make their way around the site of the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Co Offaly

SHORTLISTED
OUT FOR LUNCHÉ

By Garry O’Neill

Sammy, who gets fed daily by fishmongers in Wicklow, forgets it is New Year's Day and the fishmonger is closed, as he crosses the road at South Quay

SHORTLISTED
DOG DAY AFTERNOON

By Dara MacDónaill

Adrian Marshall, from Booterstown, exercising his dog, Willow, on Sandymount Strand, Dublin

SHORTLISTED
FLYING TIGER

By Caroline Norris

Tiger, a Labrador, soars over a ditch on a snowy morning.