WE think you'll agree we've got some stunning wildlife photographs for you on these pages today. But do you think you can do better? Well, now is your chance.

For the second year running, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has launched a major wildlife photography competition. Most of the photographs on these pages have already been submitted for this year's competition. But you have until the end of this month to get your own entries in.

The trust has 97 natures reserves dotted across the county - everything from wonderful wetlands such as Wheldrake Ings to woodland (Moorlands), bog (Askham Bog), common land (such as at Strensall Common) and coast (Flamborough and Spurn Point).

They're all great spots for amateur photographers who want to get up close to Yorkshire's wildlife. Or you could just head out to your own favourite bit of countryside. Even your back garden can be a great place to photograph garden birds or insects.

Many entrants last year urged the Trust to run the competition again this year - which is exactly what they have done.

Just like a year ago, there are four categories in this year's competition:

l Yorkshire’s wild places

l Yorkshire’s wildlife

l Junior category (photos of Yorkshire’s wildlife or wild places by the under 15s)

l Smartphone category (photos of Yorkshire wildlife or wild places captured on a smartphone).

To enter, you must submit your entries by 5pm on January 31 - full details of how to do so are below.

A panel made up of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust staff, representatives from the competition's sponsors Yorkshire Coast Nature, and York Press chief feature writer Stephen Lewis will draw up a shortlist of ten finalists in each category. These will then be put to a public vote to choose the final category winners.

So now it's over to you. Dig out that camera or smartphone, get out into the fresh air ... and start snapping!

There are two ways to submit your photographs. You can do this via Flickr - for full details of how to do so see the Trust's website, ywt.org.uk - or, if you don't have a Flickr account, you can submit photos by email to photo@ywt.org.uk

Full terms and conditions are at ywt.org.uk