Heart of Exmoor award winners for the North Devon Heritage Photographic Competition 2013 - The Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

By: Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon
Added: 10 December 2013

The Exmoor Moorland Landscape Partnership theme for the Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon\'s 2013 Heritage Photographic Competition was \'Colours of Exmoor\'.  Looking for images that captured the colourful beauty and life on this special Moorland area the \'Heart of Exmoor\' award went to Peter Kerr for his entry Reflections 1 of the East Lyn River taken near Watersmeet.

Our thanks go to Faye Belmond, Moorland Heritage Officer for the EMLP, and to Rob Wilson-North, the Conservation Manager for Exmoor National Park Authority, who had the difficult task of judging this part of the competition.  Also to Jason Ball, the EMLP Scheme Manager, who presented the prizes to the winners for this special category at the Awards Day held on the 23rd November 2013.

Results for the \'Heart of Exmoor\' awards:

1st - Peter Kerr - Reflections 1 (East Lyn River near Watersmeet)

2nd - Andrew Wheatley - The Whit Stones & Dunkery

2nd - Trish Isherwood, ARPS - Exmoor View (near Simonsbath)

3rd - Mary Chapman - Tapestry of Nature (east of Holdstone Down)

Highly Commended - Gill Leach - The Old Farmstead (Porlock)

Higly Commended - Dave Morton - Cock & Hens (Challacombe)

Commended - Sue James - Exmoor Ponies

Commended - Stephen Raff - Love on the Moor (Molland Common)

 Why not come and view these eye-catching photographs and other selected images from the North Devon Heritage Photographic Competition 2013.  The exhibition \' North Devon in Photographs\' runs until the 11th January 2014 and Admission is FREE.

 Image by Dave Morton