The top entrants in a wildlife photography competition received their prizes at the Salmon Centre in Laxey.
The competition was run by the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and attracted more than 200 entries with the top 15 being used in the Custodians of the Manx Countryside 2015 calendar.
The comeptition had five categories – farm animals, farm machinery, wildlife, countryside scenes and countryside characters – and the winning entrants received £25 gift vouchers and certificates with their names and their featured photographs on them. The winners also each received a copy of the calendar. Proceeds from the calendar go to charity and last year’s raised £750.
FWAG chairman Paul Fletcher thanked the photographers for their entries and Quine and Cubbon who produced the calendars at lightning speed in time to sell at the Royal Manx Agricultural Show after the winning photographs were voted on by visitors to the Southern Agricultural show a few weeks earlier,where all 200 entries were on display. Proceeds from sale of the calendars will go to the Agricultural Benevolent Trust, Manx Wildlife Trust and Manx Birdlife.
They cost £5 each and are available from the Agricultural Merchants, the Salmon Centre in Laxey, Union Mills filling station, Ballaleece Farm shop, DEFA headquarters at St John’s and Raymond Caley’s shop in Sulby.