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M. Stanway<\/p>\nM. Stanway<\/p>\n
The “Wild in Purple” photograph won in the Young Person’s Category<\/p>\n
A photo of Cornish heather taken by a teenager has won a photography prize.<\/p>\n
M. Stanway was named the Young People’s winner of the Eden Project’s first Wildflower Photographer of the Year competition.<\/p>\n
The Eden Project said hundreds of people had entered “stunning images” from the Shetlands to Sark of British wildflowers to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the National Wildflower Centre (NWC).<\/p>\n
The 13-year-old winner said he hoped his image inspired people to “see the wonder in the small things in life”.<\/p>\n
He said: “I am so happy and proud to have won, I still can’t believe it.<\/p>\n
“While we were out on an evening family dog walk I was amazed at how the light had turned golden and was shining through the wildflowers – it made something a bit ordinary into something extraordinary and magical.”<\/p>\n
Judge and flower and garden photographer Clive Nichols said the competition was an opportunity to “enjoy a magnificent showcase of the wildflowers” in the UK.<\/p>\n
“The winning photos truly encapsulate the beauty, kaleidoscope of colours and diversity of the wildflowers that we’re lucky enough to have growing across our country,” he said.<\/p>\n
The NWC was founded in 2001 and became part of the Eden Project in 2017 with the aim to create new landscapes for people and pollinators.<\/p>\n
Juliet Rose, head of development at the Eden Project, said she hoped the competition would bring more attention to wildlife. <\/p>\n
She said: “Biodiversity is in crisis and people are less connected with nature than ever. <\/p>\n
“We hope that by marking the NWC’s 25th anniversary with this competition, the vital importance of wildflowers will be brought to the public’s attention, while also celebrating their remarkable beauty.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"M. Stanway The “Wild in Purple” photograph won in the Young Person’s Category A photo of Cornish heather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-284845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}