2022 Landscape Photographer of the Year ‘Landscapes at Night’ Category Winner

During the evening of the 24th July 2019, a storm was quickly developing over the North-West of England. I contacted my good friend and astro photographer Stephen Cheatley if he was heading out to shoot the storm. He confirmed that he was going to visit Jodrell Bank (the radio astronomy telescope based in Cheshire) to hopefully capture a lightning strike or two alongside it.

I went along with my camera to keep him company and together, we sat in the back of his VW Transporter van with the doors open shooting the telescope between the hours of 1.30am-4.30am awhile the rain lashed down periodically. The lightning strikes hit all around us as the cameras fired off hundreds of images. My image was taken at 1.53am.

On arriving home just after dawn, I looked through the images and saw a couple that really stood out for me but in particular this one. 

I entered the image into the LPOTY competition last year and while it was shortlisted, it failed to progress any further. Fast forward a year and I decided to enter it again this year as I felt it had potential and I am genuinely delighted that the judges awarded it the winner of the Landscapes at Night category. This is a very competitive category with some absolutely fine work submitted. 

I would just like to offer my congratulations to all those who had an image or images accepted in the competition. The standard of work submitted has once again been exceptional.

You can view all the images from the winners and runners up on the Landscape Photographer of the Year’s website HERE

So here is looking forward to 2023. I best start looking through my albums to see what I can enter.