Judge: Roger Tidman

This year our visiting judge was Roger Tidman one of the Uk's leading wildlife photographers.

Roger was born in Cambridgeshire and graduated from Aston Universityas an optometrist. A career change came, when in 1979, he moved moved to Norfolk and became a wildlife photographer. 

His work regularly appears in wildlife book and magazines, and on postcards and greetings cards.  He co-authored SEALS - Their lives and legends including the Blakeney Point colony, with Joe Reed and has won the prestigious British Birds journal Photograph of the Year competition on a number of occasions.

Roger travels very widely in order to increase his species range, and usually manages several trips abroad each year.  Assignments have included Antarctica, China, Costa Rica, India, Kenya, North America, Siberia, South Africa, and almost every country in Europe.