VETERAN Scots photographer Ian Cameron, who still prefers to shoot in film rather than digital, has been crowned Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year.
Forres-based Cameron beat off strong competition from thousands of entries submitted from all over the world to win the prestigious accolade, with his magnificently evocative images shot in the Highlands, using his Pentax camera.
His photographs include “Caramel Ice”, shot at a lonely loch side in Wester Ross, “Awakening Ben Loyal”, capturing a midsummer sunrise over Ben Loyal in Sutherland and “Ceciles House”, a portrait of an old ruined home on desolate Wester Ross with An Teallach mountains in the background.
Cameron said: “I am absolutely delighted and surprised to have won.
“I thought the pictures I’d entered were pretty decent and that I’d do okay, but wow! I don’t enter many competitions so to win such a high accolade is definitely one of my proudest moments.”
The young photographer of the year title went to Lewis Donaldson, 15, of Newtongrange, Midloathian, for his image of a steam train.
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