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2020-10-24T14:56:45.614Z


Long time not seen Great Britain! If you miss the south coast of England, the green bays of Wales and London (Oh, London!), Take a look at these photos.


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Some of the 38 stones that make up the Castlerigg stone circle are more than two meters high.

The landmark in England's north-west dates back to the Neolithic Age.

It probably once served as a meeting place, but for what purpose - whether for religious gatherings or as a trading place - is not clear.

Gary Waidson took this picture under a clear starry sky and submitted it to the British "Landscape Photographer of the Year" competition.

The photographer manages to make the already mysterious place seem even more mysterious.

Photo: Gary Waidson / LPOTY 2020

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In the southern English city of Dorset you can't see the forest for all the wild garlic.

Nonetheless, Chris Frost showed the right look when he pointed his camera at the myriad of plants with their star-shaped white flowers on a spring day.

They are the stars in the photo, the hazy background with trees is the perfect stage.

With his photo, which he named "Woolland Woods", he took first place in the competition.

Before Frost saw this scene on his foray through the forest, he smelled it, he says.

Take a nose - can you smell the scent of wild garlic?

Photo: Chris Frost / LPOTY 2020

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Summer in Cardigan Bay: the last train of the day goes to Criccieth, a town in north-west Wales.

Tens of thousands of photos were submitted to the photo competition.

What the motives have in common, according to the organizer of the award: They celebrated "Great Britain's most diverse landscape".

Photo: John Davidson / LPOTY 2020

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The photographer Martin Pickles captured the Llandudno promenade less than 50 kilometers northeast of Criccieth this summer evening.

Musicians give a small concert, a few listeners have come.

You have made yourself comfortable in red and white striped sun loungers, the Irish Sea in view - and also the Victorian pier that juts out into the sea on the left edge of the picture.

Photo: Martin Pickles / LPOTY 2020

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Roller coaster, carousels, bouncy castles: Brighton Pier is a place of fun.

But speed is not only called for above the bridge.

A speedboat whizzes across the water below the pier - Matt Cooper captured the moment from the air with a drone.

Photo: Matt Cooper / LPOTY 2020

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George Robertson received an award in the Urban Life category for this photo he took in Glasgow.

"I stood in a doorway for a while, waiting for the right person to come by," he says.

"Then it started to rain and a lady appeared with her umbrella."

It gave Robertson the picture he had been waiting for: It seems as if the woman on the street art mural wants to grab the woman on the sidewalk with her fingers.

"Urban Life" - what did this category lose in a landscape competition?

It is about the possibility of focusing on the space in which an estimated 80 percent of British people live, says the competition's website: the city with its many facets.

Photo: George Robertson / LPOTY 2020

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Somewhere in Manchester: David Boam came second in the "Urban Life" category - with this photo that needs no description, but is much more suitable for head cinema.

What did the two of them have to discuss?

What did they drink

And: how did the evening end?

Photo: David Boam / LPOTY 2020

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And now you can dream your way to London - and thus maybe also to the time before the pandemic.

On the banks of the Thames, on Tower Bridge or in the middle of the city, the usually busy business district of England's capital.

The fact that there is not much going on there during the corona crisis was recently summed up by a city-based hairdressing salon owner: "It's a ghost town," said Suzie Griffin in early October of the British newspaper "The Guardian".

Photo: Marek Stepan / LPOTY 2020

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Olivia Ritchie took this atmospheric photo in Chinatown, London: lanterns and lights are reflected in a puddle.

If you look at the development of the pandemic, it looks like the Chinese New Year celebrations in 2021 could fall through - parades and parties at the end of January are likely to be a difficult undertaking due to the corona.

Photo: Olivia Ritchie / LPOTY 2020

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On the southern English chalk coast is the Durdle Door, a rock bridge over the sea.

Interesting about the photo: The focus of the picture is not the stone landmark.

When looking at it, one looks rather at the abstract snow patterns on the beach, where bathers and hikers hang out in the warmer months.

The South West Coast Path passes here.

Photo: Duncan Graham / LPOTY 2020

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Joshua Elphick sees lots of sheep when he walks his dog Brody in the South Downs, rolling hills in East Sussex.

He's not really interested in the sheep, but one day in the middle of the shutdown he got the idea of ​​looking at the animals up close.

He took his camera and jumped over the fence.

Suddenly there were a hundred sheep running up, says Elphick.

"Maybe I felt like a farmer bringing fodder to them."

Most of them turned around quickly, but one of the sheep stopped and gave the photographer the opportunity to take this picture.

Elphick was awarded the "Young Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020" award for the photo.

Photo: Joshua Elphick / LPOTY 2020

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This Devon seagull also made it into the Best Photos.

Richie Johns succeeded in creating the atmospheric impression.

Photo: Richie Johns / LPOTY 2020

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Lucie Averill photographed this reflection of a boat in Cornwall.

Photo: Lucie Averill / LPOTY 2020

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Gregg Wolstenholme submitted this photo, which he called "Winter's Coming" - but here it looks as if we are already in the middle of the deepest winter storm.

To see: the octagonal Jubilee Tower, a nearly 26 meter high observation tower in Darwen, Lancashire.

On this cold February day, visibility was less than ten meters, says the photographer.

"Fortunately, the cloud cover tore open long enough to be able to take some special drone pictures."

The pictures in the "Historic Britain" category are intended to show historical parts of Great Britain that still shape the landscape today.

Like this tower from 1898.

Photo: Gregg Wolsenholme / LPOTY 2020

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Source: spiegel

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