A photo of the Round the Island race has won one of the categories in the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011 competition.
Baxter Bradford, based in Lymington, captured the arresting image of the Isle of Wight’s world-famous race last year.
He told VentnorBlog of the delight of hearing the news on Saturday morning of being named as winner of the ‘Living the view’ category.
Solo exhibition at Dimbola
Baxter is no stranger to the Island, having already had a solo exhibition at Dimbola.
The photo and many other entered into the yearly competition are in the book, ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 5’, which is released at the end of the October. They’ll also be on shown at the National Theatre in London, 5th December 2011 until 28th January 2012 (entry is free).
Full screen image
Baxter and the competition organisers have been kind enough to allow us to reproduce a large version of the photo. Just click on the image below to get a full view of it.
Here’s Baxter’s description around his photo …
The ‘Round the Island’ race takes place each June and involves over 1,500 boats.
This was taken from Hurst Castle at just after 0600 as the bulk of the yachts were making their way down the Solent. I prefer to walk out there early to get the best of the light on the first boats and then leave once it has deteriorated getting some quizzical looks from those still making their way out at what is, for them, still an early start!
Camera Info: Nikon D700 with 70-200 MkII lens and 1.7x teleconverter, 340mm. 1/1250 sec, f/16. This is straight image, no filters and the only post processing in Capture One Pro was a small amount of clarity.
If you’d like to see other shots by Baxter, their available on his Website.
Image: © Used with the kind permission of Baxter Bradford
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