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To celebrate MPA members' achievements in creating amazing spaces for nature, we hold a biannual photo competition. There are two categories – firstly, for employees and contractors from our member companies and secondly for volunteers at restored mineral sites. Please see the winning photos from the previous MPA competitions below.
Entries can be images of species (both fauna and flora) and habitats (including their landscape setting) found on operational quarries, partly or fully restored sites or on any site plant.
Details for the next competition can be found at MPA's Nature Photo Competition 2025 (mineralproducts.org).
Michael Cardus, Tarmac Arcow Quarry, Settle, North Yorkshire Dark green fritillary butterflies feeding on a thistle
Adrian Radnor, CEMEX Hereford Quarry, Hereford, Herefordshire Kingfisher
Mike Belson, Aggregate Industries (Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust) Cossington Meadows, Cossington, Leicester Grey heron
Stuart Lawrence, Tudor Griffiths Wood Lane Quarry, Ellesmere, Shropshire Oystercatcher
Roy McDonald, Volunteer (Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust) College Lake Nature Reserve, Tring, Buckinghamshire Redwing catching a worm
George Walthew, Volunteer Kings Dyke Nature Reserve, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire Bittern in reedbed
Paul Hilton, Volunteer Mullaghglass Quarry, Belfast, Northern Ireland Common frogs spawning
Jill Bewley, Volunteer (Cotswold Lakes Trust) Manorbrook Lakes, near Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire Swan and cygnets
David Soons, Aggregate Industries (Cotswold Lakes Trust) Cotswold Water Park, Gloucestershire Common tern
Jeremy West, Tarmac Undisclosed Location, North Yorkshire Peregrine falcon
Alan Bland, Sibelco Grandcourt Farm Quarry, Leziate, Norfolk Roe deer
Ian Rumbellow, Tarmac Gallows Hill Quarry, Ipswich, Suffolk Southern migrant hawker dragonfly
Roy McDonald, Volunteer (Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust) College Lake Nature Reserve, Tring, Buckinghamshire Feeding swallows
John J Kaczanow, Volunteer (Devon Wildlife Trust) Sourton Quarry Nature Reserve, near Okehampton, Devon Wren feeding young
George Walthew, Volunteer Kings Dyke Nature Reserve, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire Otter
Dave Soons, Aggregate Industries (Cotswold Lakes Trust) Cotswold Water Park, Wiltshire Hobby
Linda Thompson, Irish Salt Mining & Exploration Co Ltd Kilroot Quarry, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland Common lizard
Dave Barnes, Hanson Almington Quarry, Market Drayton, Staffordshire Stoat
Roy McDonald, Volunteer (Beds, Cambs & Northants Wildlife Trust) Totternhoe Knolls Nature Reserve, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire Short-eared owl
John J Kaczanow, Volunteer (Devon Wildlife Trust) Sourton Quarry Nature Reserve, Near Okehampton, Devon Whiskered bat
Malcolm Jarvis, Volunteer (Devon Wildlife Trust) Blackhill Quarry, Exeter, Devon Broad-bodied chaser dragonfly
Michael Cardus, Tarmac Arcow Quarry, Settle, North Yorkshire Sand martins
David Soons, Aggregate Industries (Cotswold Lakes Trust) Cleveland Lakes Nature Reserve, Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire Hobby
Ian Rumbellow, Tarmac Bucklesham Quarry, Ipswich, Suffolk Oystercatcher sitting on her nest
Hawk Honey, Volunteer (Suffolk Wildlife Trust) Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Stoat with rabbit
Roy McDonald, Volunteer East Leake Cement Works, Loughborough, Leicestershire Bee eater
Stuart Carlton, Volunteer (RSPB) Langford Lowfields Nature Reserve, Collingham, Nottinghamshire Male bearded tit
Michael Cardus, Tarmac Dry Rigg Quarry, Settle, North Yorkshire Swallows nesting in power shed at quarry
Paul McBurnie, Aggregate Industries Glensanda Quarry, Loch Linnhe, Scotland 'Hector' the deer at sunset
Linda Thompson, Irish Salt Mining & Exploration Co Ltd By the jetty at Belfast Lough, Kilroot, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland Fully weaned grey seal pup
John J Kaczanow, Volunteer Knowle Quarry, Okehampton, Devon Juvenile peregrine falcon, the last to fledge
Roger Bennett, Volunteer (RSPB) Langford Lowfields Nature Reserve, Collingham, Nottinghamshire Misty morning with mute swans
Roy McDonald, Volunteer (Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust) College Lake, Tring, Berkshire Common blue butterfly