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<\/a>Loch Etive – Craig Aitchison<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Castle Stalker – Craig Aitchison<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Buachaille Etive Mor – Craig Aitchison<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Craig Aitchison<\/p><\/div>\n
Runner-up was Chris Swan.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Christopher Swan<\/p><\/div>\n
In the individual categories, Brian Kerr, from Carlisle, won the Best Landscape award for his stunning shot of Threave Castle in Dumfries & Galloway, while Willem Vlotman from Aberdeen won the Best Seascape category for his dramatic image of the lighthouse at Aberdeen Harbour.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Landscape Winner: Threave Castle – Brian Kerr<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Seascape winner: Splash – Willem Vlotman<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Commended – Tim Hodges<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Highly Commended – Roger Merrifield<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Commended – Mikuni Uehara<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Highly Commended: Mark McColl<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Highly Commended – Mark McColl<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Commended – John Hughes<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Youth Winner: A ray of Hope – Fiona Pulfrey<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Commended: The North Harris Hills, Dudley Williams<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Urban Winner: Donald Cameron<\/p><\/div>\n
With a prize fund of \u00a310,000 and supported by Academy Class and Formatt-Hitech, the competition was timed to coincide with the spectacular colours of the Scottish autumn. The competition opened for entries on Tuesday 15th October and closed on Tuesday 18th November 2014.<\/p>\n
Competition website: www.slpoty.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The winners have been announced in the first-ever Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. Craig Aitchison from Kirkintilloch won the overal title with his incredible shots of Buachaille Etive Mor snow scene, Loch Etive and a rainbow over Loch Tulla. Craig said: \u201cI am surprised and delighted to hear that I have been awarded the prestigious title of Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year. From the beginning my number one photographic inspiration has always been Scotland\u2019s unique landscape. \u201cTo a photographer it has the perfect ingredients that can, at times, produce real moments of magic and it is these…<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12329,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12309\/revisions\/12329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}