The UK’s Landscape Photographer of the Year
Created by: Rip Bains
“A Beginning and an End” -Mark Littlejohn
❖ Thousands of photographers across the UK entered to win this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year award, but just one photograph of heavy rain against a small stream among the Glencoe mountains took home the prize. !
❖ Photographer Mark Littlejohn from Penrith, Cumbria captured this beautiful landscape entitled, “A Beginning and an End,” which encapsulates a rare moment of pure beauty in the Scottish Highlands.
It Started With a Stream…
❖ Littlejohn knew when he woke up before dawn that morning to drive to Glencoe that the rain wasn’t stopping. !
❖ As he waited for the sun to peek through the sky at the top of the Gearr Aonach, he stumbled upon the hidden stream featured in his photograph.
–Mark Littlejohn
“It tumbled steeply down the slopes before vanishing again near the base of the mountain. With more squalls coming through I decided to
take this image as the light became slightly more diffuse. It had to be a quick handheld shot due to
the sideways rain.”
Charlie Waite: Founder of The Photographer of the Year Awards
❖ Mr. Littlejohn’s speculations proved to be the right ones, according to founder of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards, Charlie Waite. !
❖ Waite noted that Littlejohn’s image was new and isolated a “fleeting moment of beauty” within a “slightly threatening” arena. !
❖ One special thing about photography is capturing something nobody has caught before, bringing a photograph into this world that has never been seen.
Sam Rielly: Young Photographer of the Year
❖ 17 year-old Sam Rielly from London won the title of Young Photographer of the Year, presenting a black and white image of his mother walking through Anglesey. !
❖ Rielly stated his image “was taken on a particularly wet and windy day on Parys Mountain, the site of a former copper mine.”
More Winning Photographs
❖ Other winning photographers captured a wide variety of sceneries, from close-ups of lichen on Rowan trees to cityscapes controlled by breathtaking skyscrapers.
Jake Pike’s winning photograph, courtesy of: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29976731!
For More Information…
❖ This year, it looks like bad weather brought together beautiful photographs, for images and more information on other winning photographers read this article from BBC News.
