Stunning Shropshire images feature in competition
A stunning sunset in the Scottish Highlands captured by Shropshire photographer Richard Childs. A brooding black sky descending over a field in Bridgnorth.
An eye-catching picture of a daisy as seen through a tiny water droplet taken by a teenager from Oswestry.
These dramatic images have been selected for a prestigious exhibition in London after being singled out for special mention in the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.
Mairi Eyres, 17, from Oswestry, won the Young Landscape Photographer of the Year title with Take-a-View, a close-up shot of a daisy framed in a droplet of water.
Organisers said her entry showed photographic skill and ingenuity.
Richard Childs, who runs a photographic studio from Maws Craft Centre in Jackfield was commended for his spectacular photograph of Aonach Eagach in the Scottish Highlands viewed from Loch Achtriochtan.
Richard, 48, who lives in Bridgnorth, says the light was key to the success of the picture.
"Film responds very well to falling light, I knew that it was really going to sing when it was processed."
Paul Hassell, from Walsall, was also commended for his picture called Winter's Seat, which he took in a field near Bridgnorth. The image shows a man walking with the aid of a stick towards a bench beneath a brooding cloud-filled sky, with the silhouette of a leafless tree in the centre of the picture.
The Landscape Photographer of the Year competition is held in conjunction with Visit Britain and Countryside is Great Campaign.
