A news By 4usnews:The image of Corfe Castle on the frosty morning has scooped the top prize in this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year “, it was announced today.
Atmospheric shot of the ruins of Dorset has been selected from thousands of entries depicting urban and rural landscapes and secured a £ 10,000 prize for the photographer Spencer Anthony.
Other images allocated for the recognition of winning shots in the Isle of Eigg Scotland, urban areas and Romney Marsh in Kent.
This year the awards are held in conjunction with Network Rail and Government conservation agency Natural England. Two special categories were included in the competition as a result.
“Landscape on the verge of” Natural England has won the award Slawek Staszczuk for his painting the South Downs, and “lines in the landscape of Network Rail’s prize went to Chris Howe’s shot from Grindleford station in Peak District National Park.
Helen Phillips, executive director of Natural England, said: “The extraordinary collection of this year, captures images of a huge variety of landscapes in this country, and helps us appreciate the role they play as a natural support system – filtration and storage of water, fertile soils of the castle in climate change, carbon, absorbing flood waters and buffering coastal storms.
“Awards a reminder of how our precious landscapes and it is important that we look after them.
Young Landscape Photographer of the Year “for persons under the age of 16 years, went to Taliesin Coombs for his image of a steam train leaving the station in Cardiff Wales, contest organizers said.
Take a View – Landscape Photographer of the Year award in his fourth year, and are based photographer Charlie Waite, to mark the landscape photography of Great Britain.
More than 100 of the best images will be displayed in a free exhibition at the National Theatre in London on 22 November, while the book contains more than 170 entries were published on October 31.
