UK Landscape of the Year Awards After the winners of the annual United Kingdom’s Landscape of the Year Awards were announced, BBC completed an article to detail the winners and how they captured their star photographs. The overall winner of the competition was a photograph captured by Mark Littlejohn, entitled A Beginning and an End. The picture depicts a setting from the Scottish Highlands; specifically, a locale in the Glencoe mountains.

The photo was captured by coincidence, as Littlejohn had been forced to wander away from his chosen spot due to heavy rain. As a result, he found a stream from high up on Gearr Aonach; the stream sloped deeply before disappearing at the base of the mountain. Due to the continuing squalls of rain, the light became slightly more diffuse; in addition, the sideways rain forced Littlejohn a quick handheld shot. Regardless, the picture came out remarkably, winning the top prize of the competition. Charlie Waite, the founder of the competition, said the picture managed to capture a fleeting moment of beauty for the occasionally threatening terrain that is the Scottish Highlands. Other winning shots for the overall title for the competition included a close­up of a lichen­covered rowan tree and cityscapes dominated by striking buildings. The competition also included a category for novice photographers, entitled the Young Photographer of the Year. Sam Rielly, a seventeen year old teenager hailing from London, won the title, with a black and white image of his mother walking through the landscape of Anglesey. The image was taken on a particularly wet and windy day on Parys Mountain, the

site of a former copper mine. His mother, who is the subject of the picture, was not aware it was begin taken, at the time. The awards are also held in association with VisitBritain; as a result, there is a special category dedicated to a picture that will encourage tourists to choose the United Kingdom as their destination. John Robinson took this category, for a shot of a sunset over the heather­strewn Yorkshire Moors.