AGS Photographic Competition, 2013 - Winners
Overall Competition Winner 2013.
Overall 2013 AGS Photographic Competition Winner (The best photograph from all classes)
David Morris, Caton, Lancashire, UK for a Plain tiger butterfly on Wild carrot in Class Four.
Class 1. An alpine or rock plant in a natural (wild) landscape, with both plants and landscape featured.
First: Tony Hughes, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK.
Ranunculus keupferi
Summit of the Col du Granon, near Briacon, Fench Alps: July 2013.
Class 1.
Second: Liam McCaughey, Ballinderry Upper, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
Aster diplostephioides
Yak Kharka, Nepal at 4,050m: July 2012.
Class 1.
Third: Bill Raymond, Iwerne Minster, Blandford, Dorset, UK.
Gentiana clusii
Pic d'Anie, Pyrenees: June 2013.
Class 2. Portrait of an alpine or rock plant in the wild, featuring the entire plant.
First: Tony Goode, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Pulsatilla alpina subsp.apiifolia
Above the Saas-Grund, Switzerland: July 2013.
Class 2.
Second: Zeng Gang, Sichuan Alpine Ecology Study Centre, P. R. China.
Habernaria glaucifolia
Balang Shan, Sichuan Province, China: June 2005.
Class 2.
Third: Liam McCaughey, Ballinderry Upper, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
Oxygraphis glacialis
Baima Shan (c.4,800m) Yunnan, China: June 2011.
Class 3. Close-up detail of an alpine or rock plant in the wild or in cultivation, with leaves included as appropriate.
First: Chris Hansen, Lamplugh, Workington, Cumbria, UK.
Primula aureata
Photographer's greenhouse: April 2013.
Class 3.
Second: David Morris, Caton, Lancashire, UK.
Soldanella alpina
Cirque de Troumouse, Hautes-Pyrenees, France: June 2013.
Class 3.
Jon Evans, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
Epimedium sp. leaves
Photographer's garden: May 2013.
Class 4. Alpine fauna in the wild, in a mountain landscape or in association with alpine plants.
First: David Morris, Caton, Lancashire, UK.
Danaus chrysippus (plain tiger butterfly) on Daucus carota (wild carrot).
Col de Sevi, Corsica: September 2012.
Class 4.
Second: David Morris, Caton, Lancashire, UK.
Lepus timidus (mountain hare)
Howden Edge, Howden Moor, Peak District National Park, UK: April 2012.
Class 4.
Third: Tony Hughes, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK,
Lucanus cervus (male stag beetle) on a bracken frond.
Lower slopes of Mount Olympus, north-east Greece: June 2012.
Class 5. 'The Art Gallery' - a photographic work of alpine artistry using any advanced software techniques.
First: Celia Sawyer, Oxford, UK.
Paris polyphylla
Photographer's garden: Photoshop Elements using Filter-Adjustments-Invert.
Class 5.
Second: Jon Evans, Farnham, Surrey, UK.
Cypripedium formosanum
Plant exhibited by Ian Robertson at the Kent AGS Show in 2012 - a close-up of a single flower was copied and rotated to form a geometric pattern.
Class 5.
Third: Celia Sawyer, Oxford, UK.
Physoplexis comosa
Photographer's garden - Photoshop Elements using Filter- Artistic- Coloured pencil.