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Image entitled 'Severance' - photo by Mark Tierney

CPRE SOUTH YORKSHIRE PHOTO COMPETITION 2009

The winner of this year’s CPRE South Yorkshire photo competition is Mark Tierney for his photograph “Severance.”

There were nearly 250 entries in our annual competition, including a brilliant and interesting range of photos from amateur and professional photographers.

The photos were judged by a panel of distinguished professional photographers: Paul Hill, Karen Frenkel and Mike Williams. They said the striking photograph “used artificial lighting within within a landscape so dramatically that it is almost like a horror movie vision.” They praised it for “bringing South Yorkshire into the realms of exotica.”

Mark was also joint runner up, and had two more pictures commended. The competition was run in conjunction with Friends of the Peak District – and Mark won first prize in the Peak District too.

School girl Rebecca Walton (15) won the under-18s category with her lively photograph of three pals jumping in the sunshine at Parsonage Farm. Rebecca, from Deepcar, took the photo on her mobile phone. She was delighted to win a year’s free supply of ice cream from firm, Bradwell’s Dairy Ice Cream.

Rebecca and Mark both also won a handsome canvas of their winning photos, and a landscape photography masterclass with Karen Frenkel.

With thanks to:

You can see Mark’s work at http://tierneyphotography.co.uk/blog/

People and Seasons in Rural South Yorkshire results

  • Winner: Severance by Mark Tierney
  • Runner up: Walkers in Middlewood by John Scholey
  • Runner up: Ulley Reserviour by Mark Tierney

Commended photos:

  • Cows at Wentworth by Gareth Bagnall
  • Flower Girl at Throapham by Mark Tierney
  • Hutcliffe Wood by Rod Egglestone
  • Iced-over Morning by Arwyn Quick
  • Maltby Coal Line by Mark Tierney
  • Rape Seed Field, Aston by Tom Anthony
  • Clough Lane by Rod Egglestone

You and Your Friends in the Countryside (under 18s category) results

Winner: Parsonage Farm by Rebecca Walton
Runner up: Top That! By Tom Jolley

Picture top left: 'Severance' photographed by Mark Tierney CPRE Photographic Competition Winner 2009

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