Stunning photos from the 2018 Photography Awards
The 10 photos below are a luxurious feast for readers and photography lovers.
The Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards book is always awaited with the best photos gathered here. AA Publishing has allowed MailOnline Travel to introduce to readers 10 photos in advance. Choosing 10 photos from dozens of photos was also a headache for the newspaper's editors because all of them are extremely impressive. The photos in the book will be displayed in a free exhibition lasting 11 weeks at Waterloo Station, London from 19/11.
1. This stunning image won the Landscape Photography Awards 2018. It is called “Ice Piles”. Photographer Pete Rowbottom took this photo at Glencoe in Scotland. He used flat stones as a tripod to capture this image of a frozen lake.
2.This stunning image of Daymark – a monolithic building in Brixham, Devon – won photographer Will Milner an Adobe award. The structure helps sailors navigate their ships. Milner says he used “traditional landscape photography” for the foreground and “advanced astrophotography” to capture the stars. He then combined the two. “I went to Devon when the weather forecast indicated the right conditions for both elements of the image,” he says.
3.Edward Hyde’s photograph, titled “Lighthouse and Sea Serpent,” was taken in Newhaven Harbour during Storm Brian in October 2017. Winds were gusting at 60km/h. Hyde said: “I was fascinated by the character and shape of the waves breaking the harbour wall. In this photograph, I see the head of a sea monster, or sea serpent, reaching over the wall of the lighthouse.”
4.British trains are famous for being relatively unaffected by Mother Nature. But this striking image by Paul Fowles shows they can be beaten. Taken in October 2017 at Tywyn, Cardigan Bay, Wales, the train sails through the foam churned up by Storm Brian.
5.James Loveridge described his photograph as “a once in a lifetime sight on the Dorset coast”. It was taken at West Bay at dawn. “Never in my 27 years here have I seen mist flowing over the cliffs and down to the beach, and it will never happen again. This image has now been viewed 4 million times.”
6.This photo was taken at sunrise in Houghton, West Sussex. Photographer Marie Davey said: “It’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen.” She set her alarm for 2:45 to capture this image.
7.This mesmerising image was taken by Chris Fletcher of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire. He says: “Every spring the bluebells bloom, but the woods remain quiet with only a few visitors.”
8. This photo, titled “Moody Day at Kilt Rock,” was taken by photographer Pawel Zygmunt at Mealt Fall on the Isle of Skye. He said: “The cliff has huge columns of rock that look like folds in the crevices. The light on a gloomy day makes the image even more dramatic.”
9.This photo of the north face of Pen y Fan in Brecon Beacons, Wales, was taken on a cold day. Photographer Harry Tilsley-Winch said even his beard was frozen.
10. Josef Fitzgerald-Patrick's photo won him the Your View Youth Class Winner award, for the under-17 age group. The photo was taken at Porthgwarra Cove in Cornwall. Fitzgerald-Patrick said: "Porthgwarra has always been one of my favourite places to photograph the Milky Way. It has dark skies with great views. One night I was lucky enough to have clear skies with a boat lying on the slope on the way down."
