Landscape Photographer of the Year awards!

I was sitting editing a wedding on Saturday afternoon when my email beeped... I'm not normally easily distracted when I've got my wediting groove on, but I'm glad I took a peek at this one. It seems that I've had a photograph win the Classic View category of this year's Landscape Photographer of the Year competition! 

It's always gratifying when people enjoy your work, but to have been granted an award of this size in a competition judged by some of the most respected landscape photographers in the country is just stunning! My photograph not only topped the Classic View category but was also selected as the Judge's Choice by Steve Watkins from Outdoor Photography magazine. Hopefully I'll have the opportunity to buy him a pint at the opening of the exhibition in London in November.

I've spent a long time on the road this year, researching, writing and shooting for the Photographing Scotland guidebook that I'm writing. The book should be finished and with the editors at fotoVUE for fact checking and laying out soon, so opening that email this afternoon has been a huge motivational boost to get out there and finish off the last few locations I want to visit before signing off on the project. If you think you might be interested in the book once it's in print (early spring 2017) then there's a newsletter sign-up below. And of course, should you fancy a print of a photograph that was already close to my heart, that can be arranged too!

Dougie

www.facebook.com/LeadingLines

Instagram: leading_lines