Maria Davison from Portugal won the overall competition and the 'Man's Best Friend' category. Alexandra Robins from the UK won the 'Rescue Dog' category, and Alasdair MacLeod from Scotland won the 'Assistance Dogs' category. Eight-year-old Dylan Jenkins from Swansea won the 'Young Pup Photographer' category. Sarah Caldecott from Yorkshire won the 'Dogs at Work' category. Kaylee Greer from the US won the 'Dogs at Play' category. Anastasia Vetkovskaya from Russia won the 'Dog Portrait' category. John Liot from Jersey won the 'Oldies' category.

1. Overall winner of the competition and winner of the ‘Man’s Best Friend’ category: Maria Davison from Portugal

2. Man's Best Friend: Winners of Kennel Club 2017
Dog Photographer of the Year competition

3. Alexandra Robins from Wiltshire won the ‘Rescue Dog’ category for her portrait of rescue dog Chloe with her carer at Bath Cats and Dogs Home

4. The winner of the ‘Assistance Dogs’ category was
Alasdair MacLeod from Ayrshire, Scotland, for this
picture of retired greyhound Megan from Canine
Concern Scotland visiting local care home resident
Duncan, a 95 year-old RAF veteran who flew in the
‘Dambusters’ squadron.

5. Eight-year-old Dylan Jenkins from Swansea won the 'Young Pup Photographer’ category.

6. Sarah Caldecott from Yorkshire won the ‘Dogs at Work’ category with a portrait of Rita the pointer bounding over the moors of County Durham.Sarah Caldecott

7. Kaylee Greer from the United
States won the ‘Dogs at Play’
category with a photo of
Petey the Soft Coated
Wheaten Terrier, playing on
the south coast of Boston.

8. Anastasia Vetkovskaya from Russia won the ‘Dog
Portrait’ category with a stunning monochrome
image of an Afghan hound.Anastasia Vetkovskaya

9. John Liot from Jersey won the ‘Oldies’ category with a relaxed portrait of 12 year-old rescue dog, Kelly

10. Man’s Best Friend Category 2nd Place Winner Emma Williams, UK.'Watering Hole'

11. Julian Gottfried from the United States won the ‘I Love Dogs Because…’ category

12. Dogs at Work 2nd Place Winner Lucy Charman, UK

13. I Love Dogs Because… (Ages 11 to 17) 2nd Place Winner Summer Clark, UK. "Sandy Snout"

14. Second place, Assistance Dogs. Reno, a Labrador
Doberman cross, whose owner is a double amputee
and registered blind. Photograph: John Ferrett

15. I Love Dogs Because… (Ages 11 to 17) 3rd Place Winner Kirsten van Ravenhorst, Netherlands. ‘Lazy days’

16. Second place, Rescue Dogs. Fly running with a ball
on the Norfolk coast. An unwanted family pet, Fly
was handed to a farm to help herd cows. It wasn’t
for him and he now lives with his new family in the
Peak District. Photograph: Martin Tosh

17. Puppies Category 2nd Place Winner Tracy
Kirby, Ireland. “Patience of a Saint”

18. Second place, Dogs At PlayLeica smells a flower
in a chamomile field near her home town of
Curitiba, Brazil. Photograph: Rodrigo Capuski

19. Assistance Dogs Charity Category 3rd Place Winner Julie Morrish, UK. ‘I’m here for you’

20. Third place, Rescue Dogs. Joshua a pit bull terrier mix who was
adopted from a shelter in Boston, Massachusetts, after being
rescued from an abusive home. Photograph: Kaylee Greer

21. Man’s Best Friend Category 3rd Place Winner Annemarie King, UK

22. Second place, Oldies. Rex, taken on a very hot day
in Ukraine. He spent most of the day motionless
in his doghouse trying to hide from the burning
sun. Photograph: Igor Mysenhevych

23. Dogs at Play Category 3rd Place Winner Will Holdcroft © UK. “Rabbit Run”

24. Dog Portrait 2nd Place Winner, David Yanez, UK. ‘Sleeping Tiger’

25. Young Pup Photographer (Under 11s) 1st Place
Winner Jay Case, UK. “Home Sweet Home”

26. Mirjam Schreurs from the Netherlands
won the ‘Puppy’ category with a lovely
image of a baby Boxer named Tyson.

27. Dogs at Work 3rd Place Winner Peter Steffensen, Denmark

28. Third place, Dog Portrait. ‘Bella in Autumn
Leaves’ was the title for the photo of this young
Labradoodle. Photograph: Noel Bennett

29. Young Pup
Photographer (Under
11s) 3rd Place Winner
Samantha Hung, USA.
Sparkling Sunday

30. Third place, Puppies. Three-
month-old German Shepherd
Aiko, resting after a run on a
beach in Holland. Photograph:
Ruud Lauritsen

31. Oldies Category 3rd Place Winner Tracy
Kirby, Ireland. “Young at heart.”

32. Special Mentions

33. Judges’ Special Mention Puppies Category Katrina Wilson, UK. “Happy Chappy!”

34. Judges’ Special Mention
Rescue Dog Charity Category
Victoria Watts, UK. ‘Mutts of
Mayhem’

35. Judges’ Special Mention Rescue Dog Charity Category Julian Gottfried, USA. "After the Walk"

36. Judges’ Special Mention I Love Dogs Because … (Aged 11 to 17) Molly Wallis, UK. “Mountain Hike”

37. END20-JUNIO-2017