Picture of Wittenham Clumps on a misty morning wins drone pictures award

A photographer has gained a prestigious award for his drone picture capturing the proper second of timber casting a shadow into early-morning mist.

Christopher Harrison, from close to Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, scooped first prize within the nature class on the world’s main worldwide drone pictures competitors, the Siena Awards in Italy, on 27 September.

The Long Shadow was captured at Brightwell Barrow close to the Wittenham Clumps, the place a small group of timber stands on a small, raised hill.

Mr Harrison mentioned it highlighted “a perspective that you can only get with the flexibility a drone can give you”.

He mentioned he had began taking pictures “more seriously” a couple of years in the past.

“I just love being outside and in nature,” he mentioned.

“I started taking my camera out with me, started going out at sunrise, which is just the best part of the day for photography because you get interesting conditions.”

It was that uncommon mix of the suitable circumstances when “the mist can sit at perfectly the right level, where the trees essentially cast a shadow into the mist directly just as the sun comes up above the horizon”.

That was how his profitable shot grew to become attainable he defined.

“The photograph is quite simple when you first look at it,” Mr Harrison mentioned.

“But when you look a bit closer, you can see the detail in the trees, you can see the details in the fields around the trees.”

He described the awards ceremony in Siena as “a fantastic event, mingling with some of the best photographers across the world”.

Moving ahead, Mr Harrison, who has a full-time job, mentioned he “just want to keep shooting the local area”.

“Oxfordshire, even Berkshire, has some amazing locations to shoot, so I plan to continue doing that,” he mentioned.

“I’ve got a couple of exhibitions coming up later in the year locally in Henley, so I look forward to that and just see what the next six months to a year brings.”