A perfect moment: Picture scoops top prize at landscape awards

● 15-year-old Scot wins Young Photographer of the Year award

‘Drifting quietly to the morning autumn glow and sound of roaring stags and snoring dogs – few better ways to awaken the senses.’ Freelance photographer Graham Niven, from Edinburgh, wrote this as the caption to his image – entitled Dawn Patrol – which was today named as one of the winners in the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards. The photograph won the Home of Amazing Moments category sponsored by Visitbritain. The atmospheric image was shot on Loch Garten in the Cairngorms and features springer spaniels Tosh and Vorlich. His wife Amy is at the bow of the boat.

An industrial landscape at Grangemouth, a steam train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct and the three bridges crossing the Forth were among the Scottish entries in this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year Award.

Andrew Bulloch, 15, from Edinburgh, won the Young Landscape Photographer of the Year title for his image of an urban skate park with the backdrop of the Northern Lights.

The Visitbritain ‘home of amazing moments’ award was won by Graham Niven, from Edinburgh, for his shot of an early morning boat trip on Loch Garten in the Cairngorms.

Benjamin Graham beat thousands of entries to win the top prize of £10,000 for his shot of dunes at low tide at West Wittering, West Sussex. 0 Clockwise from main: The Cauldron, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, by George Robertson; Fogbow, Rannoch Moor, Highlands, Scotland by Sharon Wilson; Skatepark under the Northern Lights, Musselburgh, Edinburgh, by Andrew Bulloch, who won the Young Landscape Photographer of the Year title; Three Forth Bridges by Sean Kerr, which shows The new Queensferry Crossing under construction, the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge at night; the book featuring competition entrants