Series Winners and finalists Landscape-Landscape 3

	First place - Gold Gorman,Paul My work explores the theme of the photograph as object. Photographs are transparent; we are allured through the surface by the sense of depth and detail, which is a result of their flatness. Through means of multiple exposures and representation (the knowledge of seeing something before) these images captivate you. Placing the viewer directly in to the work, challenging their perceptions, using different points of view, it draws on Phenomenology, intentionally directing ones attention to something in the world. The work therefore explores the possibility of our own vision and observation and how new perceptions merge with existing ones.
	Second place - Silver Easton,Craig
	Third place - Bronze Adams,Peter Aerials over Namibia
	Commended Ledergerber,Ralph A Once there was life and then it turns into sand
	Commended Marchant,John My images are documents of long journeys through the Sussex landscape. I walk for many miles in a day, searching for - in Hockney's words - Secret Knowledge. I use a Leica M6 and feel it's weight, like a pistol.
	Commended Davies,Ellie Islands Series: My images explore the notion that landscape can be viewed as a constructed cultural fiction. Complex themes and metaphors obscure and overlay the landscape with additional meaning, directly reflecting the preoccupations and anxieties of the culture they were produced in. The forest landscapes are cloaked in darkness; framing and encircling the otherworldly spaces. The deep shadow references our perception of the natural world embedded in memory, history, storytelling and folk law, in which the forest has long symbolized the dark, hidden world of the unconscious.
	Commended Sridhar,Sankar Wind, water, earthquakes of millennia past, the shuffling hooves of horses and sheep over centuries, and minerals laid bare by the elements have all left an indelible mark on the high-altitude desert of Ladakh in the northern tip of India. These are the subtle details of an awe-inducing landscape of majestic expanses, where terrain turns into an artist’s canvas.
	Commended Torres ,Guido Depicting an expanse of natural scenery
	Commended Gannon,Claudia Orford Ness, former military test site and atomic trigger mechanism research site in Suffolk which is now nature reserve but still has a very strange atmosphere about it.
	Commended Schittny,Burkhard In 'Untitled' I blend the margins of photography, painting and film by creating video stills and transferring them into the realm of photography. But my interest goes beyond media boundaries to include those between the self and the world. I used to photograph people who were alone, unobserved and lost in thoughts. People do not appear in ‘Untitled’, yet they are present. To me these works are like scraps of faded, blurred memory, transferred images, sombre remains of past events, echoes of my family's history, outposts of memory...
	Commended Brittan,Philip Unofficial Beauty - Photographs of three small ponds situated in the middle of a large industrial estate. Clearly this is not a typical place where one would expect to find the wild or the beautiful. But it's there in abundance. These places matter because, just like the more grand spectacles of nature, they have the capability to refresh and renew, to make us change the way we see and feel, to make us change who we are and can be. They also offer a more likely opportunity for political engagement with the environment than places in far corners of the world.
	Commended Vincent,Estelle Journey on the Beirut Damascus Highway The Lebanese-Syrian border is approximately 400 km long although no formal boundary was ever established separating the two states. There are approximately 72 crossing points between Syria and Lebanon, only four of which are official. This series was taken on a journey on the Beirut Damascus Highway through Masna‘a which is the main crossing point at the eastern border and the most important point for cross-border traffic from the two capitals. The distance between the checkpoint and the actual border is 8 kilometers and Lebanese officials estimate that 3,000 individuals are living in villages situated in the no-man’s land of the border region.
	Commended Hennell James,Jeremy A series of images showing the tranquility of the lakes of South-west France
	Commended Easton,Craig Landscapes and seascapes of Cornwall
	Commended Robertson,Lindsay American Wilderness
	Commended Żychska,Agnieszka "Stawa Mlyny" - a beacon at the entrance to the port in Świnoujście, Poland.
	Commended Appleby,Sam This project arose out of both a fascination for the structures depicted and concerns regarding attitudes to modernisation in the lesser-developed regions of Europe and elsewhere. Many such regions are visited by travelers from more-developed countries, who delight in the traditional landscapes and historic sites but are dismayed by the sites related to modern urban, industrial and agricultural development. These digitally fulfilled photographs of domestic and commercial construction sites around Greece, drawing heavily on nineteenth century archaeological photography, are intended to function as visual metaphors for the problems surrounding popular perceptions of ancient and modern Greece.