Andy Swain LRPS, CPAGB last night (2nd June) selected ‘Is the Watehole Safe’ by Nick Lewis to be the NDPS ‘mage of the Year’.

Unfortunately due to the restrictions imposed by the UK Government regarding social distancing and gatherings during the current Covid-19 pandemic the competition was held virtually via Skype and was restricted to just a Digital category with the normal Print category being scrapped this year.

Andy had seen all the images for about a week ahead of the competition which enabled him to look at ‘high quality’ versions of each image and ensured that potential projection issues over the internet were eliminated on the night of the competition. With every member entitled to submit an image along with those that had qualified automatically via earlier rounds of the Photographer of the year competition Andy judged nearly 40 images.

Before starting to give his judgement on each image Andy said he had been impressed by a number of ‘striking’ images and on the general high standard of work submitted in the competition. However, as in all competitions there has to be a winner and so it proved…!

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