Beautiful landscapes at Britain's busiest stations

Five of the country’s biggest and busiest railway stations are hosting a series of special exhibitions showcasing a selection of stunning images from the last six years of the Take a view  Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. The exhibition launches at Manchester Piccadilly on Saturday 8 June. Awards founder, Charlie Waite, will be at the exhibitions on each Monday between 12noon and 2pm, so do come along and say hello.

The stations photography exhibitions will be at:

Saturday 08 – Saturday 15 June: Manchester Piccadilly station
Sunday 16 - Saturday 22 June: Leeds station
Monday 24 – Saturday 29 June: Glasgow Central station
Monday 01 – Saturday 07 July: London King’s Cross station
Saturday 10 – Saturday 17 Aug: London Waterloo station

Picture of The Albert Bridge over the River Tamar in Plymouth by Colin Grace ( Network Rail Award Shortlist 2010 )

New Award from VisitBritain for overseas entrants

Do you live overseas but have visited the UK? Do you have some landscape photographs of your experience?

This year sees the introduction of a new Award from the national tourism agency, VisitBritain.

The VisitBritain ‘You’re Invited’ Award will be presented to the image judged to be the best submitted by an entrant living outside Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The judges will be looking for an image that says something about Britain and the

wide-ranging appeal that it holds for visitors. Just enter the competition in the normal way and, if your residential address is overseas, you entry will be considered for this additional special prize.

Picture L-R: Krzysztof Nowakowski (Poland, Commended 2011), Kah Kit Yoong (Australia, Commended 2010), Emmanuel Coupe (Greece, Winner 2009), Magdalena Strakova (Czech Republic, Commended, 2009)

2013 Competition opens

Could you be the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2013 & be the 7th person to hold the title?

You can see what our 2012 winner, Simon Butterworth has to say about his winning year here

Closing date is earlier this year - the 4th July 2013 - so make sure that you don't miss it! You can enter up to 25 images across the 4 categories...and there's a special class for those 17 & under too.

(Picture shows some successful entries from 2012)

Could you be the next winner to fly high in the Network Rail Inspection Helicopter?

Do you have any great photographs of the UK's rail network? Then please make sure that, when you enter, you select the option on the online entry form that makes them eligible for Network Rail's 'Lines in the Landscape' Award.

This year’s winner has the option of joining a flight in Network Rail’s inspection helicopter which has onboard infrared technology to monitor thousands of miles of track, or a ride on the New Measurement Train, a converted high speed train that is used to capture geotechnical track data safely, punctually and reliably, collecting real time data and clocking up 80,000 miles per year. Either prize offers a unique photography opportunity not open to the public and we will be adding £300 prize money so that you can make a weekend break of it.

(Picture of 2012 winner, Graham Hobbs courtesy of G & E Hobbs)

New spec for this year's entries

There have been a few changes to the rules this year, so if you have entered the competition before, please do make sure that you read them through again.

We have increased the size requirement of the initial submission and

are now asking that you upload images of 1280 pixels longest length

at 72ppi for your initial entry, rather than 800px as in previous years.

All images have to have been taken within the five years preceding the closing date and it is very important that your image is relevant for the category in which it is entered. You can find more information in the

How to enter section.

Angus Clyne's 'Winter Beech Trees' wins Visitor Vote

Thanks to those visitors to the National Theatre exhibition who voted for their favourite image.

The winner was Angus Clyne's dramatic picture of winter beech trees in Scotland. Congratulations Angus!

A book signed by awards founder, Charlie Waite goes to Carla from Middx, who voted for the winning image and won the prize draw.

Ian Cameron's frosty image of Loch Achanalt and Kayode Okeyode's romantic black & white photograph of lovers & Big Ben in the snow were also very popular with visitors.

Bit of a wintry theme seems to be dominating!