This is the blog presentation of Rip Bains featuring this year's winner of the Landscape Photographer of the Year award in the UK. The winner's name is Mark Littlejohn and he won the title with his amazing shot called “A Beginning and an End”.

1. The UK’s Landscape
Photographer of the Year Created by: Rip Bains

2. “A Beginning and an End” -Mark Littlejohn
❖ Thousands of photographers across the UK entered to
win this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year
award, but just one photograph of heavy rain against a
small stream among the Glencoe mountains took home
the prize. !
❖ Photographer Mark Littlejohn from Penrith, Cumbria
captured this beautiful landscape entitled, “A Beginning
and an End,” which encapsulates a rare moment of pure
beauty in the Scottish Highlands.

4. It Started With a Stream…
❖ Littlejohn knew when he woke
up before dawn that morning
to drive to Glencoe that the
rain wasn’t stopping. !
❖ As he waited for the sun to
peek through the sky at the top
of the Gearr Aonach, he
stumbled upon the hidden
stream featured in his
photograph.

5. “It tumbled steeply down the slopes before
vanishing again near the base of the mountain.
With more squalls coming through I decided to
take this image as the light became slightly more
diffuse. It had to be a quick handheld shot due to
the sideways rain.”
–Mark Littlejohn

6. Charlie Waite: Founder of The Photographer of the Year Awards
❖ Mr. Littlejohn’s speculations proved
to be the right ones, according to
founder of the Landscape
Photographer of the Year Awards,
Charlie Waite. !
❖ Waite noted that Littlejohn’s image
was new and isolated a “fleeting
moment of beauty” within a “slightly
threatening” arena. !
❖ One special thing about photography
is capturing something nobody has
caught before, bringing a photograph
into this world that has never been
seen.

7. Sam Rielly: Young Photographer of the Year
❖ 17 year-old Sam Rielly
from London won the
title of Young
Photographer of the
Year, presenting a black
and white image of his
mother walking through
Anglesey. !
❖ Rielly stated his image
“was taken on a
particularly wet and
windy day on Parys
Mountain, the site of a
former copper mine.”

8. More Winning Photographs
❖ Other winning photographers captured a wide variety
of sceneries, from close-ups of lichen on Rowan trees to
cityscapes controlled by breathtaking skyscrapers.

9. Jake Pike’s winning photograph, courtesy of:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29976731!

10. For More Information…
❖ This year, it looks like bad weather brought
together beautiful photographs, for images
and more information on other winning
photographers read this article from BBC
News.