To quote their website: "2020VISION is the most ambitious nature photography project ever staged in the UK. It aims to engage and enthuse a massive audience by using innovative visual media to convey the value of restoring our most important but often fragmented natural habitats - to show that healthy ecosystems are not just for wildlife, but are something fundamental to us all" (2020 Vision 2014).
The exhibition itself was outdoors set up on the Promenade (with sandbags to boot due to the storms):
And this was a great setting as Morecombe Bay itself is one of the areas that the project supports:
so it was fantastic to see the exhibition in this marshland context:
I was really pleased to see images by some photographers that are familiar to me (my other passion being wildlife photography), including marine biologist and underwater photographer Alex Mustard, and Ross Hardinott and his beautiful damselfly:
My dogs weren't very happy about being dragged along to this, but I'm glad I went! Wildlife photography with a purpose :) and it made me realise that I should try harder to find wildlife on my doorstep instead of waiting for travel opportunities!
Websites
- 2020Vision (2014) [online] available from http://www.2020v.org/ [accessed 24 August 2014]
- Hardinott, R. (2014) [online] available from http://www.rosshoddinott.co.uk/
- Mustard, A. (2014) [online] available from http://www.amustard.com/
- Northshots (2014) [online] About Peter Cairns available from http://www.northshots.com/about_peter_cairns.asp [accessed 24 August 2014]
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