Amateur Photographer - UK (2021-11-13)

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Technique LPOTY 21

Winners and finalists of Landscape Photographer

of the Year share their top tips for award-winning

landscapes with Hollie Latham Hucker

The beauty

N

ow in its 14th year, Landscape

Photographer of the Year once more

showcases and celebrates the richly

diverse landscape of the UK. From

dramatic storms and raging seas to the quieter

joys of misty woodlands and close-ups of nature’s

fascinating details, the winning photographs in this

year’s competition not only display the talent of

their creators but also inspire visitors to explore and

discover the wonders of Britain’s countryside.

With a beautiful shot, ‘Morning at Countryside’,

taken in West Sussex, Mara Leite scoops the

prestigious title of Overall Winner and receives the

£10,000 top prize in this year’s competition. Charlie

Waite, the awards founder says, ‘With the glorious

ring lighting and a splash of golden light at the top,

there is a sense of security and protection as much as

secrecy that emerges from this delicate photograph

where we are beckoned to go forward.’

The Young Landscape Photographer of the Year

title goes to Evie Easterbrook for her image ‘Joining

the Queue’ taken in Southwold Harbour. Charlie

Waite says, ‘The humour in this photograph is

wonderfully conveyed and seems reminiscent of an

earlier time, perhaps the fifties, and embraces a piece

of classic Britain.’

This year there were seven categories and special

awards: Classic View, Your View, Urban Life, Black

and White, The Network Rail Award for Lines in the

Landscape, The Sunday Times Magazine Award for

Historic Britain and the Light and Land Award for

Landscapes at Night, as well as Young LPOTY.

An exhibition of shortlisted and winning entries

will premiere at London Bridge on 15 November

and run until 9 January 2022. A tour of the UK will

follow. To see all the winners and awarded entries

from this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year

competition, visit http://www.lpoty.co.uk.

Evie Easterbrook

Joining theQueue

Overall Youth Winner

‘I took this photograph at Southwold harbour in

Suffolk. I was surprised to see the gulls forming such

an orderly queue!’

EVIE’S TOP TIPS

1

Always have your camera nearby. You can

never be certain when something interesting will

come into view or for how long the subject matter

will be at its best.

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