Henley Spiers, from Exeter, took the grand prize in the Hipa Nature contest with the underwater action shot. He said of the photo, taken off Noss Island, Shetland: “I tried to display the controlled violence of the scene. These amazing birds hit the water like a torpedo.
“Tragically Shetland’s gannets are in the midst of an avian flu pandemic, which has ripped through their colonies.”
Other winning images included a monochrome portait of an ice-coated bear hunting in snow, taken in -22C Canada.
A shot from above of an orangutan climbing a tree in Borneo, and one of glowing pepalanthus flowers in a Brazilian field, were awarded too.
source: express.co.uk