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title: Landscape Photographer of the Year 2021 Shortlist
url: https://billwardphotography.co.uk/landscape-photographer-of-the-year-2021-shortlist/
date: 2022-01-07
modified: 2026-09-22
author: Bill Ward
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lang: en-GB
categories: [Uncategorized]
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I was delighted to have made the shortlist again at 2021  [UK Landscape Photographer of the Year](http://www.lpoty.co.uk). It’s a competition I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for, and have been lucky enough to do pretty well in over the years: Adobe Prize winner and Highly Commended 2015, Commended 2013 and 2020, Shortlisted 2015, 2017 and again in 2021.

This photograph also made it to the final stages of the inaugural [Natural Landscape Photography Awards.](_wp_link_placeholder)

It was taken on Dartmoor near Black-a-Tor Copse, just after the end of lockdown in April 2021. I’d gone with my good friend and fellow Pentax Ambassador Matt Emmett of [Forgotten Heritage](http://www.forgottenheritage.co.uk/) to do my first ever light painting session under his guidance, and, as is often the way, came back with something else entirely…