Smashing through the water at 60 miles per hour, this shot of a gannet in the Shetland Islands in Scotland has scooped a British photographer the grand prize in an international photo competition.

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 ...

Aimee Jan's photo of a turtle surrounded by glass fish was the contest's winner. The competition's runner-up was Henley Spiers, who captured this energetic image of diving gannets, a type of seabird.

A blue-footed booby rises from a dive with a sardine it caught. Photo: Henley Spiers / Bird Photographer of the Year A blue-footed booby towing a sardine won the silver award for Bird Behavior ...