Niels Rasmussen's shot, the sun smiles on the North Western fells

Niels Rasmussen's shot, the sun smiles on the North Western fells

An image of the sun’s rays bathing a moody range in the Lake District has won an annual photography competition run by aficionados of the late Alfred Wainwright.

Niels Rasmussen’s the sun smiles on the North Western fells was judged by professional photographer Derry Brabbs the best of 75 entries in the Wainwright Society’s contest.

The competition is open to all members of the Society, which promotes the works of the infamously diffident guidebook author.

The 2013 entries came from 28 different members and Mr Rasmussen’s image of Causey Pike and the surrounding fells, with shafts of sunlight breaking through a cloudy sky, was judged by Derry Brabbs the best of the bunch.

Brabbs collaborated with Wainwright for his later coffee-table books, which featured his photography.

He said: “The winning photograph is one of those utterly captivating images that any photographer would be proud to have in their portfolio and is the perfect example of what can be achieved by being in that right place – with a camera – and at exactly the magic moment when nature puts on one of its better light shows.

“The tightness of the framing is impressive and maximises the strong clouds and shafts of sunlight sweeping down either side of Causey Pike’s serrated summit.”

Second-placed image was Andy Beck’s Loweswater Gold. Entries by John Pulford and Andrew Clayborough were highly commended.

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