Eleanor Bennett came third with this picture of a small snail hitching a ride in The Papworth Trust’s first photography competition.

Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic,The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph , The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United states and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited , having shown work in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles,Florida, Washington, Scotland,Wales, Ireland,Canada,Spain,Germany, Japan, Australia and The Environmental Photographer of the year Exhibitio (2011) amongst many other locations. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010. (by Eleanor Leonne Bennett)

Excerpt from interview with Eleanor Leonne Bennett by Side B Magazine:

What is your approach to photography? What inspires you?

I am very inspired by architecture and unusual occurrences in nature. My approach is to get as high quality work as possible in a short space of time to capture my aesthetic. Sometimes I used a reduced quality setting to capture things at a high fps [frames per second] if I feel  I am very short of time. The most important thing is composing it so it looks like it should do in my mind. I have an idea of the finished product when I photography something.

More works of Eleanor Leonne Bennett at www.eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com