A STRIKING black-andwhite shot of fishing boat sheds with Northumberland’s Lindisfarne Castle in the background has scooped the top prize in an annual landscape photography competition.
David Byrne, from Cannock, Staffordshire, won the Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year award and the £10,000 prize for his photograph, which was chosen from thousands of entries capturing aspects of the UK landscape.
Mr Byrne said: “I had no expectations of winning – I took the picture because I love monochrome landscapes and Britain has some of the best landscapes you can find.
“Getting in the final was brilliant, but to win was out of this world.”
Mr Byrne also won the classic view category for an image of sunlit trees.
More than 100 of the best images will feature in a free exhibition at the National Theatre, in London, from November 12 and a book of more than 170 photographs is being published.
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