Landscape photography cognoscenti

The annual awards for an annual UK landscape photography competition were announced in early November and the social media peanut gallery/circus, seems to be settling down, aside from a few who are determined to endorse/discredit the winning image to underpin their personal agenda. The debate of the winning image, highlighted the whole gamut of positive and negative aspects of human nature - humour, spite, goodwill, envy, insight, honesty ... In fact, for the second year running there was no disqualification for questionable post processing/image veracity, no pets in the image and the image was actually of the landscape, which in the context of past competitions is something of a result for the consistency of the judging process. These are all good things and a step in the right direction.