WEST Midland Safari Park is giving visitors the opportunity to show off their creative side with two new competitions.

Budding wildlife artists and photographers are encouraged to enter the Safari Photographer of the Year and Safari Artist of the Year competitions.

Judges will be looking for originality, something that is unusual, striking, thought provoking, super cute, simply stunning or down right funny.

Competition organiser and judge, Caroline Richards, said: "This is the first time we have organised this kind of competition. In the past we have encouraged visitors to send us their best photo entries for our annual calendar competition. This has always proved extremely popular and last year alone saw well over 700 entries. There are some incredibly talented people around and we are sure that it gives us as much pleasure to judge as it gives those the pleasure to enter.

"We are in mid-summer, which seems to bring out the very best creative side in visitors. We feel sure that we will be happily inundated with entries for both competitions during the next few months".

The competitions are free to enter and are open to anyone who feels that they have captured that perfect moment in the animal world.

All of the photo entries need to have been taken at West Midland Safari Park during 2014 or 2015 and additionally art entries must be of an animal that is part of the wildlife collection at Bewdley.

For full details visit www.wmsp.co.uk/photo and www.wmsp.co.uk/art or call 01299 402114.