Vote for your favourite calendar photo
Entries have flooded into The Shetland Times following an appeal for a striking photograph to feature on the newspaper’s 2016 calendar.
More than 120 entries were received – an increase of around a third on last year’s competition.
This week newsroom staff, including photographer Dave Donaldson, have been whittled the selection down to 12.
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- Autumn sunset, East Yell. Alastair Christie-Johnson
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- Bonnie calm summer’s night at the Bridge End of Burra. Amanda Johnson
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- Lingness croft, Eswick. Cecilia James
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- The Haven at Fair Isle. Christine Thompson
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- Loch of Strom. Colin Dickie
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- Draatsi. Iain Sloan
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- A farmer moving sheep between fields at Bannamin beach. Photo: Joe Leask.
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- Flowers in a fence post, Whalsay. Johan Hutchison
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- Barley Fields. Ronnie Robertson
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- Voe of Footabrough during storm Abigail. Scott Goudie
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- Red skies. Steven Birrell
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- Ness of Sound looking back over Sound. Veronica Richards
And now it is up to readers to choose which one will grace the walls of homes and offices across Shetland next year.
To have your say, select your favourite image and then take part in our poll below. Voting will close at 11.59pm on Wednesday 2nd December.
Editor Adam Civico said: “Yet again we have received some truly brilliant photos and it was difficult choosing the final 12. Thank you to all our readers who entered and good luck to our finalists.”
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Anna Mainland
Awesome picture by Mr Birrel, hope to see it in the calander.
John Halvorsen
I vote for “Red Skies,” by Steven Birrell. He has really captured the spirit of Shetland with this piece. The subtle quality of the light, the strong composition of the image, plus the range of colours portrayed in this image make it that something special.
Janet Williamson
so peaceful, in this troubled world that we live in it is nice to see peace and quiet at the end of a day.
Danielle Armstrong
Good job ????????
Ellen Roe
Spectacular colours and reflections make my heart sing with longing to be part of the serenity and beauty of the Shetland Islands.
David Spence
I like Scott Goudie’s picture because of the composition of land, old croft and stormy sea’s. In many ways this reflects Shetland more so than the other pictures.
The picture ahead at the present moment I feel has been photoshopped as the colour’s, I think, are far too strong. In some ways, it is not realistic enough.
The picture of the Haven at Fair Isle is very good in its composition with strong colours (but not emphasized, I think) and a good foreground, middle ground and background.
Red Skies by Steven Birrell is very good indeed. I like the foreground of the wave capturing the dim light of the background. However, despite capturing the motion of the wave, I think there could have been more in the middle ground to give it greater balance between the foreground and the background.
The quality of the pictures overall is very good indeed.
Adaline CHristie-Johnston
This is my husbands photo and it was not Photoshopped nor have we been voting incognito . Adaline CHristie-Johnston
David Spence
I apologize Adeline.
It was my first impression, as the colour’s of the picture were very well defined, and it looked, to me, to have been enhanced significantly……..but as said it was my first impression.
Once again, I apologize.
John Moir
A fine selection of photographs and disappointed to some disparaging remarks regarding ‘photoshopping’.
Red Skies by Mr Birrell was my personal favourite due to the timing of the photograph, just as the wave was tumbling over. The Haven at Fair Isle was my second choice.
William McCallum
Caught all the colours beautifully. Steve has a very sharp eye for detail.
HaydnGear
Autumn Sunset——- so beautiful, so powerfully full of fabulous atmospherics. By far and away my first choice of photograph.
Kathy Greaves
They are all different but beautiful. Maybe we need all twelve to remind us how diverse Shetland is.
Haydn Gear
The suggestion made by Kathy Greaves is a good one. When I lived and worked in West Yorkshire, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner (newspaper) held a similar competition but one picture was chosen for each month of the year. Would it not be possible for Shetland Times to do likewise? So many superb photographs and only one gets to be seen? Not very clever. What’s more, I imagine sales of calendars would increase substantially and people from far and wide who could be sent the calendars would probably be tempted to visit Shetland by seeing twelve rather than just one photograph.There could still be one chosen as the favourite so everybody wins !!
Dougie Goudie
Cracking pic Steve..
Tracy Drakes
I vote for Loch of Strom
Steven Birrell
Many thanks to those who voted for my picture to appear on the calendar, and congratulations to colin. An excellent selection of pictures overall has given the public a hard decision and no doubt the correct one. I look forward to trying for it again next year :).