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International Garden Photographer of the Year

I am proud to announce that I have won the Abstract Views category of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 16 with my image Abandon Hope:

“All hope abandon ye who enter here.” – the infamous line from Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’, which was described as being the inscription on the gates to Hell. In this image I see the circles within circles of Dante’s Inferno, which I created from a bug hotel in my garden using in-camera image blending.

All of the images in this gallery were successful in the IGPOTY Abstract Views category in competitions 15 (2021) and 16 (2022).

And in competition 14 (2020) I won first prize in the Portfolio category, together with a Royal Photographic Society Gold Medal. You can see my winning panel of images in my Hosta Patterns gallery.

All of these images were created in my own small garden.

ABANDON HOPE PRESENT UNCERTAIN CATKIN ABSTRACT FENCED PHORMIUM COSMIC FILAMENTS AFLAME I'M WATCHING YOU STARS AND STRIPES

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