2023 will mark the 15th edition of Landscape Photographer of the Year – the UK’s most popular photography competition that celebrates the UK’s most stunning landscapes.
Britain’s most challenging photography competition sees photographers scaling mountains, wading rivers, battling snowstorms, chasing sunsets and clambering up skyscrapers to capture the most beautiful locations in the UK.
See below some unseen images of the UK’s most photogenic tourist destinations taken from the 2022 awards for inspiration.
The competition is a celebration of the British countryside in all its glory, founded 15 years ago by the grandfather of British landscape photography Charlie Waite.
From rolling fields to towering mountains, inky woodlands to starlit beaches, each year the award provides a showcase of the best images of the British countryside and 2023 will be no different.
The Landscape Photographer of the Year Award also provides inspiration for some of the most stunning places to visit in the UK, from Snowdonia National Park to the starlit beaches of Cornwall and from the Sussex Downs to the Highlands of Scotland.
Entries to the 15th edition of the award are currently open for photographers young and old, experienced and amateur, to be in with a chance of being named Landscape Photographer of the year 2023.
With a prize fund worth over £20,000, inclusion in a stunning coffee table book and in a nationwide photography exhibition, photographers have until 31st May 2023 to enter online, with the winners announced at an award ceremony in October.
Enter online here: https://www.lpoty.co.uk/competition/rules
The prize also celebrates the best landscape photography taken by people aged 16 and under.
The Young Landscape Photographer of the Year award is open to all and aims to inspire profound engagement with the British landscape through photography.
The Landscape Photographer of the Year Award was devised by one of the country’s leading landscape photographers Charlie Waite, to inspire profound engagement with the British landscape through photography.
Waite is firmly established as one of the world’s leading landscape photographers. His photographic style is often considered to be unique, in that his photographs convey an almost spiritual quality of serenity and calm.
He was born in 1949 and worked in British Theatre and Television for the first ten years of his professional life.
Throughout this period, he became fascinated by theatrical lighting and design. Gradually the landscape and the way it can be revealed to us through light and shade stole him away from the acting profession.
He has established a worldwide reputation for his unique approach to landscape photography and runs a successful photography school Light and Land.
His photographs are held in private and corporate collections throughout the world.
Charlie founded the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards with the aim of providing a showcase for those around the world who share his passion for the art of landscape photography.
Competition categories include:
Classic View: Traditional Landscapes
Cityscapes: Urban Landscapes
Black and White: Black and White Landscapes
Intimate View: Macro and detail focused Landscape Photography
New categories for the 2023 award that reflect changing trends in photography include:
Change in the Landscape: Reflecting Britain’s changing environment
Bird’s Eye View: Drone photography
Impressions of the Landscape: Artistic interpretations of the landscape
Coast: Coastal Landscapes
My Railway Adventure: Sponsored by Network Rail this category is for trains in the landscape
