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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Jane McLeod

Scottish seabird snap earns £100k grand prize in global photography contest

Henley Spiers took this shot of a gannet seconds after it dived off the Shetland Islands

AN image captured in Scotland of a gannet smashing through the water at 100 km per hour in the Shetland Islands has earned a British photographer the grand prize in an international photo competition.

Henley Spiers, from Exeter, won the huge £100,000 ($120,000) prize in the world-renowned Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) nature competition.

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