Congratulations to three RTPS members, Jocelyn Horsfall, our president Lorraine Clifton and Dick Hawkes for being on the roll call of honours in the prestigious International Garden Photographer of the Year competition (IGPOTY).
All three succeeded in the ‘Captured at Kew’ special awards category; Jocelyn took 1st place with her beautiful ‘Glasshouse Window Leaf Patterns’ image; Dick gained two finalist places with ‘Sweet Chestnut’ and ‘Japanese Festival in the Temperate House’ and Lorraine achieved a Highly Commended for her infrared ‘Princess of Wales Conservatory.’
The IGPOTY competition celebrates the genres of garden, plant, flower and botanical photography and is run in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The competition attracts up to 20,000 individual entries submitted from photographers all over the world – which puts into perspective the impressive achievement of our winners.
An exhibition of the winners opens at Kew tomorrow (5 February).