A Tavistock photographer was highly commended for several of his picturesque images in the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards.
Alex Nail narrowly missed winning first place in the ‘Classic View’ category of the award but was highly commended for two of his images entitled, Burrator Plantation in Summer and Broken Skye, and was commended for another three.
Alex, 22, a semi-professional photographer, is the first in the competition to have five entries shortlisted for the award. His images along with the other winning and shortlisted images will be exhibited in London.
This was the first year Alex had entered the competition, and he did so to get his work seen by a wider variety of people.
He said: ‘It was a really nice surprise to have my work commended. It is going to be great seeing it at the National Theatre. It’ll be good for it to be exhibited in a serious location — normally I arrange my own exhibitions.’
The Landscape Photographer of the Year Award is in its third year and was set up by landscape photographer Charlie Waite, to celebrate the landscapes of the UK and show the country through the eyes of the photographers.
The images will be exhibited in the National Theatre in London until January and have been made into a book, ‘Landscape Photographer of the Year Collection 03’, more of Alex’s work can be found at www.alexnail.com
