Landscape photographer of the year 2011 – in pictures

Baxter Bradford wins prize at Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards

Robert Fulton has become the fifth person to win the £10,000 Take a View landscape photographer of the year award with a shot of frost-covered trees in Stirlingshire.

More than 100 of the best images will go on display in a free exhibition at the National Theatre in London from 5 December

A PHOTOGRAPH taken near Milford on Sea has come top in its category in this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards.

Baxter Bradford won the ‘living the view’ prize for a picture of sailing boats at sea.

The photograph titled Round the Island was taken from Hurst Castle and was chosen from thousands of entries showcasing different aspects of the UK landscape.

Baxter, 50, who lives in Lymington, had to set his alarm early to capture the best light for the annual sailing race.

“I’m a keen watersports enthusiast and I like to get up at silly o’clock to see the action,” he told the Echo.

“The winning picture was from the 2010 race. I got up at 4am to photograph it this year but it was wet and windy so I went back to bed.”

The criteria for the ‘living the view’ category was to include people making the most of the landscape.

Baxter, who is a maths teacher, wins £1,000 and his work will feature in a forthcoming exhibition at the National Theatre.

Tim Harvey from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, won the ‘classic view’ category of the competition for his image of storm waves crashing against a sea wall, while Peter Clark, from Cheshire, scooped the ‘your view’ award for an atmospheric picture of woodland trees.

Other winners included 14-year-old Oscar Stewart-Packe, from London, who won the Young Landscape Photographer of the Year award for his image of a moldering armchair in a derelict house and Howard Kingsnorth, also from the capital, who came top in the ‘urban view’ category for his shot of the City of London.

And the ‘lines in the landscape’ category was won by Shahbaz Majeed, from Dundee, for his image of a train speeding over the Tay Bridge.

An image of the lines of a winter field leading to a stand of frosted trees won top prize in the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.

The winning shot, by Robert Fulton, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, scooped the £10,000 first prize.

The awards, now in their fifth year, were set up by Dorset-based landscape photographer Charlie Waite.